Teaching and Learning Inquiry.


Without evidence, you are just another person with an opinion. (Andreas Schleicher, OECD)

The main purpose of a teaching and learning inquiry, as described in the NZ curriculum, is to bring about improved outcomes for students through a cyclical process that is guided by 3 key questions.
  1. What should students achieve? Where are our students in relation to these goals and priorities? What do students need to learn next? (focusing inquiry)
  2. Which strategies, interventions or programmes will support students to achieve these outcomes? (teaching inquiry)
  3. What learning happened for students as a result of these strategies, interventions or programmes, and what will teachers do next to ensure that students continue to progress? (learning inquiry)

ERO found that inquiry typically took two forms - teaching and learning inquiry,[4] and professional learning inquiry.  The following model is found on the MOE site and also the ERO site

The following link has a series of presentations to give a deeper understanding of the purpose of Inquiry.
https://www.slideshare.net/jadeballek/inquiry-earning-presentation?next_slideshow=1
https://www.slideshare.net/Rossini/teaching-as-inquiry-7595557





Here is another interesting blog
http://mindspiration.weebly.com/blog/welcome-post
https://chrisreflects.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/grow-your-own/

This is a link to a Blog where this teacher has modified the spiral of inquiry in a neat way.
https://misswolferrs.wordpress.com/category/spiral-of-inquiry/




I have also found the site learning with Digital Technologies for Māori and Pasifika Learners.
https://vln.school.nz/discussion/view/781211?offset=20 This has great information and suggestions that I could include in my action plan.
For my own inquiry plan, I used the spiral of inquiry as I found that this allowed my planning to be more detailed and was easy to relate back to Personalised Learning. I think that so long as the plan relates to building capacities to respond appropriately to the learner's needs. That the framework allows identification of gaps in teachers practice and identifies development areas for staff and how these link back to the learner. For me, there was also an importance of reflecting on my Lit review and being able to use this knowledge to target my learner. I have never used the spiral of inquiry model and I liked that I was able to compare elements of this model with the one that is currently being used at our school. Once I have gone through the process of implementing the plan I am going to add a reflective element of my report to the Board which will include evaluation of the models.
It's funny how in schools you just do things because a uniformed model is put in front of you. I never thought about looking for other models that would better suit our learners or the direction of the inquiry.

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