1. Teaching as Inquiry - Example
Questions
Focusing Inquiry
•What data/evidence/information do I have to support this?
•How do I know that this evidence is valid?
•What are the learner ’ s priorities
•What are my priorities (the teacher ’ s ) with this group of learners?
•What have they learned and what do they need to learn?
•Where are we going with this? What do we need to achieve?
Teaching Inquiry
•What have I learned from in the past that can help me out now?
•What do I need to plan for in order to achieve the goals?
•What do I need to do to help my students best learn this?
•What are the best-practice examples of this teaching?
•How can I best measure results against expected learning out-
comes?
•How do I communicate this?
•How can I co-construct this with the learners?
•Where should I spend the most of my teaching time?
Learning Inquiry (Formative/Summative)
•How did it (is it) go? What does my evaluation tell me (so far)?
•What evidence tells me it was/is successful?
•How is does my evidence present itself and how is it deeper than the
‘surface’?
•How can I trust the data? How am I interrogating the evidence?
•What does the evidence really tell me?
•What do my colleagues think about it?
•What impact did the teaching have?
•What am I (the learners) going to do with this next?
•What impact does this have on future teaching and learning?
•What has changed? What needs to change?