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Title: Teaching as Inquiry


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  • Teaching as Inquiry
  • Using Teaching as Inquiry to improve your
    teaching and your students learning
  • c.amos_at_auckland.ac.nz

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Where we are supposed to be!
  • In August 2009 The Education Gazette spoke to
    New Zealand Curriculum project manager Chris
    Arcus, to find out what schools need to know
    regarding the NZC at this stage.
  • Where do schools need to be by February 2010 in
    giving effect to The New Zealand Curriculum?
  • All schools need to do a couple of key things
    they need to design and implement a school
    curriculum and they need to teach using an
    evidence-based inquiry cycle that informs what
    they do and monitors the impact of those
    decisions.

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Teaching as Inquiry in the NZC
  • What the research tells us
  • Teaching students to think critically about
    their learning is an indispensable skill required
    by good teachers. Just as students benefit by
    reflecting on their learning, teachers benefit by
    reflecting on their teaching practices. Teachers
    must learn to identify and set specific goals for
    themselves, the same expectations they hold for
    their students.
  • John Dewey saidthinking enables us to direct
    our activities with foresight and to plan
    according to ends-in-view, or purpose of which we
    are aware. It enables us to act in deliberate and
    intentional fashionSelf-regulation is at the
    heart of deliberate and intentional practice.
  • According to Reid Reid, A. (2004), inquiry
    should be "a way of professional being".
    "Educators who are inquirers will never announce
    that they 'do' inquiry, thus separating the
    activity from their professional being. Rather
    they might describe how they work that is, the
    ways in which they inquire into their
    professional practice and how they are always
    striving to develop and expand their capacity to
    inquire.

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Teaching as Inquiry in the NZC
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Teaching as Inquiry in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa

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Teaching as Inquiry in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
  • What are the essential learning outcomes for
    students from the Curriculum and community?
  • Evaluate how students are progressing in relation
    to those learning outcomes (use the graduate
    profile as a guide).
  • What knowledge and skills do teachers require to
    support learners to link their learning to the
    new learning outcomes?
  • How can administrators, whanau and iwi support
    teachers to raise student learning/achievement?
  • To ease/assist students into new experiences.
  • To strengthen teachers knowledge and skills.
  • What are the benefits of the activities for the
    learners?

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Two ways to integrate inquiry
  • Using Teaching as Inquiry to improve teaching and
    student outcomes (targeted) and to support
    teacher appraisal
  • Using Teaching as Inquiry to inform course design

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Teaching as Inquiry to improve student outcomes
  • 'If there is a way to do it better... find it!'
    Thomas Edison
  •  
  • The Teaching as Inquiry cycle can guide us in
    finding out what we need to know about our
    students and to inform our teaching and learning.
    This version of the model identifies six stages
    of an inquiry cycle.
  • There are different skills and tools that are
    useful at each stage. The model is designed to
    guide you through the steps of your own Teaching
    as Inquiry project. In the right columns you will
    see examples of how this might be used with a
    Junior and a Senior English class.

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Teaching as Inquiry to improve student outcomes
  • Activity
  • Read the Teaching as Inquiry project planner
    provided and consider how you could use this to
    improve a specific group of students outcomes
  • Share your ideas with the table
  • Consider how you might use this support the
    appraisal cycle

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Teaching as Inquiry as a programme planning tool
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Teaching as Inquiry as a programme planning tool
  • http//englishsecondaryplanner.pbworks.com/Using-I
    nquiry-for-Programme-Planning-in-Secondary-English

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Teaching as Inquiry as a programme planning tool
  • Activity
  • Discuss with your table how you use inquiry in
    you programme planning at the moment.
  • Does this vary from junior to senior courses?
  • How (if at all) might a teaching as inquiry tool
    like this help your planning??
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