TEACHING+AS+INQUIRY

This page aligns with Inquiry as learning. It particularly links with the way we are using evidence and research to inform our teaching. This is an ongoing process. So when we get a Year 9 class in front of us for the first time we receive a profile of the class that includes asTTle data and a range of other diagnoses that deepen that profile. We`add to that our own diagnosis about these students during the year. This evidence informs our teaching. AGGS have come up with a model that aligns the inquiry model for students with the inquiry model for teaching.

In 2008, I conducted two surveys of MAGS staff that were designed to gather evidence about changes that staff were making to some very fundamental aspects of what they were doing to facilitate good learning in the classroom. The results and my commentary are here:

This document looks at Teaching as Inquiry and all of the ways that we as teachers can intersect with it. I also ran sessions during Term 3 of 2009 that unpacked the whole notion of teaching by inquiry. I am still not sure whether some teachers quite 'get it' but our involvement with the Secondary Literacy project in 2010 will help that process. Click the link on the right for more on the Secondary Literacy Project If we consider the whole notion of Self Review, that is very similar to Teaching as Inquiry! The document that I asked HOFs to complete about self review is a very effective way of identifying Teaching as Inquiry