Teach a teacher to fish teaching as inquiry

Teach a teacher to fish series:

Using teaching as inquiry to implement

changeGive a teacher a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a teacher to

fish and you feed them for a lifetime.

Ko wai? No hea?O Claire AmosO Director of e-learning, Epsom Girls

Grammar SchoolO Blog: www.teachingandelearning.comO Twitter: @claireamosnzO I am passionate about teaching

English, e-learning, professional development, my family, trashy fashion mags, tattoos and shoes

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The misappropriated metaphor

O Give a teacher a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a teacher to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.

Teaching as inquiry

Teaching as inquiry

OEffective pedagogy requires that teachers inquire into the impact of their teaching on their students.

Source: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum/Effective-pedagogy

Focusing InquiryO What is important (and therefore

worth spending time on), given where my students are at?This focusing inquiry establishes a baseline and a direction. The teacher uses all available information to determine what their students have already learned and what they need to learn next.


Teaching and Learning Inquiry

O What strategies (evidence-based) are most likely to help my students learn this?The teacher uses evidence from research and from their own past practice and that of colleagues to plan teaching and learning opportunities aimed at achieving the outcomes prioritised in the focusing inquiry.


Teaching and LearningO This is the part where you do

stuff….like teach…or even better, facilitate learning!

Learning InquiryO What happened as a result of the

teaching, and what are the implications for future teaching?The teacher investigates the success of the teaching in terms of the prioritised outcomes, using a range of assessment approaches. They do this both while learning activities are in progress and also as longer-term sequences or units of work come to an end. They then analyse and interpret the information to consider what they should do next.


Teaching as inquiry to improve student outcomes

Focusing Inquiry

Teaching and

Learning Inquiry

Teaching and

Learning

Learning Inquiry

Teaching as inquiry to improve student outcomes

Focusing Inquiry

Which students will you focus on?What data will you gather?


What strategies will best support these students?What PD do you need?

Teaching and Learning

Make a plan and timeline for trials

Learning Inquiry

How do you measure if improvements have been made?What made a positive impact?

Teaching as inquiry to improve teacher practice

Teaching as inquiry to improve teacher practice

Focusing Inquiry

Which area of your teaching practice will you focus on?What data will you gather?


What strategies do you need to work on?What resources do you need to develop?What PD do I need?



Learning Inquiry


Teaching as inquiry to keep the focus on learning not the ICT

Teaching as inquiry to keep the focus on learning not the ICT

Focusing Inquiry

Which students will you focus on?What data will you gather?What desired student learning outcome will you focus on (this must come first)


What ICT tools/strategies will best support the desired student learning outcome?What PD do you need?



Learning Inquiry


Teaching as inquiry to integrate thinking, collaboration and

differentiation

Teaching as inquiry to integrate thinking, collaboration and

differentiation

Focusing Inquiry

Which students will you focus on?What data will you gather?What aspect of thinking will you focus on?


What opportunities are there for collaboration and differentiation?What ICT tools/strategies will best support these students?What PD do you need?



Learning Inquiry


Teaching as inquiry

'If there is a way to do it better... find it!' -

Thomas Edison

Conclusion

Teaching as Inquiry = good

Giving a teacher a fish = bad

Teach a teacher to fish teaching as inquiry

Education

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