1. Teach a teacher to fish series:
Using teaching as inquiry to
implement change
Give a teacher a fish and you feed them for
a day. Teach a teacher to fish and you feed
them for a lifetime.

2. Ko wai? No hea?
O Claire Amos
O Director of e-learning, Epsom Girls
Grammar School
O Blog: www.teachingandelearning.com
O Twitter: @claireamosnz
O I am passionate about teaching
English, e-learning, professional
development, my family, trashy fashion
mags, tattoos and shoes

3. The misappropriated
metaphor
O Give a teacher a fish and you feed them
for a day. Teach a teacher to fish and you
feed them for a lifetime.

4. Teaching as inquiry

5. Teaching as inquiry
O Effective pedagogy requires
that teachers inquire into the
impact of their teaching on their
students.
Source: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum/Effective-
pedagogy

6. Focusing Inquiry
O What is important (and therefore worth
spending time on), given where my
students are at?
This focusing inquiry establishes a
baseline and a direction. The teacher
uses all available information to determine
what their students have already learned
and what they need to learn next.
Source: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/The-New-Zealand-
Curriculum/Effective-pedagogy

7. Teaching and Learning Inquiry
O What strategies (evidence-based) are
most likely to help my students learn
this?
The teacher uses evidence from research
and from their own past practice and that
of colleagues to plan teaching and
learning opportunities aimed at achieving
the outcomes prioritised in the focusing
inquiry.
Source: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/The-New-Zealand-
Curriculum/Effective-pedagogy

8. Teaching and Learning
O This is the part where you do stuff….like
teach…or even better, facilitate learning!

9. Learning Inquiry
O What happened as a result of the
teaching, and what are the implications for
future teaching?
The teacher investigates the success of the
teaching in terms of the prioritised
outcomes, using a range of assessment
approaches. They do this both while learning
activities are in progress and also as longer-
term sequences or units of work come to an
end. They then analyse and interpret the
information to consider what they should do
next.
Source: http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-documents/The-New-Zealand-
Curriculum/Effective-pedagogy

10. Teaching as inquiry to improve
student outcomes
Focusing
Inquiry
Teaching and
Learning
Learning
Inquiry
Inquiry
Teaching and
Learning

11. Teaching as inquiry to improve
student outcomes
Focusing Inquiry Which students will you focus on?
What data will you gather?
Teaching and What strategies will best support these
Learning Inquiry students?
What PD do you need?
Teaching and Make a plan and timeline for trials
Learning
Learning Inquiry How do you measure if improvements
have been made?
What made a positive impact?

12. Teaching as inquiry to improve
teacher practice

13. Teaching as inquiry to improve
teacher practice
Focusing Which area of your teaching practice will
Inquiry you focus on?
What data will you gather?
Teaching and What strategies do you need to work on?
Learning What resources do you need to develop?
Inquiry What PD do I need?
Teaching and Make a plan and timeline for trials
Learning
Learning How do you measure if improvements
Inquiry have been made?
What made a positive impact?

14. Teaching as inquiry to keep the
focus on learning not the ICT

15. Teaching as inquiry to keep the
focus on learning not the ICT
Focusing Which students will you focus on?
Inquiry What data will you gather?
What desired student learning outcome
will you focus on (this must come first)
Teaching and What ICT tools/strategies will best
Learning support the desired student learning
Inquiry outcome?
What PD do you need?
Teaching and Make a plan and timeline for trials
Learning
Learning How do you measure if improvements
Inquiry have been made?
What made a positive impact?

16. Teaching as inquiry to integrate thinking,
collaboration and differentiation

17. Teaching as inquiry to integrate
thinking, collaboration and differentiation

18. Teaching as inquiry to integrate
thinking, collaboration and differentiation
Focusing Which students will you focus on?
Inquiry What data will you gather?
What aspect of thinking will you focus on?
Teaching and What opportunities are there for collaboration
Learning Inquiry and differentiation?
What ICT tools/strategies will best support
these students?
What PD do you need?
Teaching and Make a plan and timeline for trials
Learning
Learning Inquiry How do you measure if improvements have
been made?
What made a positive impact?

19. Teaching as inquiry
'If there is a way to do it better... find it!' - Thomas
Edison

20. Conclusion
Teaching as Inquiry = good
Giving a teacher a fish = bad