Teaching+As+Inquiry


 * Teaching As Inquiry **

Halfway into our contract, it's time to look at how we can start moving each teacher forward from the point they are at now. One way of doing this is by setting up a structure of individual teacher inquiries - and where applicable, grouping like needs for PD.

How we do that as lead teachers?

media type="custom" key="9819369" Claire Amos is Director of eLearning at Epsom Girls' Grammar. In this EDtalk recorded at [|Learning@school 2011] Claire talks about how the school is using a "teaching as inquiry" cycle to inform the eLearning action plans that will be implemented by professional learning groups in each of the school's curriculum areas. Claire describes the process the teachers are going through in this initiative. @http://www.edtalks.org/video/using-teaching-inquiry-guide-elearning-action-plan

media type="custom" key="9812685" Here are some more places to do some preliminary reading.: http://leadinglearning.wikispaces.com/ http://rcict.wikispaces.com/Teacher+professional+learning http://www.slideshare.net/tessagray/teaching-as-inquiry-7409420 media type="custom" key="9507724" width="156" height="156" align="left"

See how another cluster went about this process:

http://rellco.wikispaces.com/Action+Inquiry

Let's give the last word to Helen Timperley: media type="custom" key="9819437"
 * Professional learning that Makes a Difference to Students**