Skip to main content

Collaboration in Education

Search This Blog

Podcasts: Collaboration and The Spiral of Inquiry

October 29, 2020

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

You can find all podcasts that I have made about Collaboration and the Spiral of Inquiry here.

Enjoy!

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Popular Posts

Spirals of Inquiry: Why do we focus on "target learners"?

Sometimes I come across educators who have questions and concerns about why they are asked to focus on "target learners" to inform their inquiries into their practice. I have an issue with putting labels on people so I don't enjoy talking about "target learners" or "priority learners", in much the same vein of thinking as Alex Hotere-Barnes and Shelley Moore (among many others). Here is Alex's post on Pākehā Priority Learners Here is Shelley's post on Labels Spiral of Inquiry - Kaser & Halbert, http://noii.ca/ Aside from the fact that it would be largely impractical to do justice to the Scanning phase if we focused on a large group of learners, this post explains why it is best to focus on a small group of specific learners. In a nutshell, here are the main reasons that we focus our Spirals of Inquiry Scanning and Checking on a small group of learners with learning (and teaching) challenges attached to them:...

Using Story Hui to evaluate our experiences with the Spiral of Inquiry

Here are some highlights from my experience in implementing Spirals of Inquiry with leaders and teachers at a secondary school this year. Some are quotes from their Story Hui evaluations and others are points made by me. Scanning Scanning design and integrity is important to ensure we discover things we never knew before. “I was shocked by what learner voice showed us in Scanning...s hock ed at what some students said. I thought I knew them and that they knew me. " I was a little shocked with what they said, it made me take a second take about how I am working with the students, presenting myself. It made me step back and check my assumptions.” “Their responses floored me. I was surprised at how they saw themselves and how they saw learning” Building Collaboration and Trust In my facilitation and mentoring I put a strong emphasis on building good relationships across the teams and on fostering collaborative inquiries. Trust is a key factor in...

Teaching as Inquiry: How to Love It!

Teaching as Inquiry is a process where teachers inquire into their own practice and use evidence about their learners to make decisions about ways to change practice for the benefit of those learners. It is a continuous, reflective and iterative cycle and is focused on complex pedagogical change. Regardless of the framework that is used (e.g. Spiral of Inquiry, Inquiry and Knowledge-Building Cycle) these same key principles apply to the process. Misconception A wrong or inaccurate idea In my years mentoring and coaching leaders and teachers to implement the Spiral of Inquiry, I have discovered that there are many misconceptions about Teaching as Inquiry. I hope this post provides some clarity about some of the more common misconceptions, how to address them and therefore, how to foster a love of Teaching as Inquiry! Photo by Sandy Millar on Unsplash Misconception #1: I nquiry must result in changes in Reading, Writing or Mathematics curriculum knowled...

Powered by Blogger