Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Stages of Inquiry ( Spirals of Inquiry ) Scanning Focusing  Developing a Hunch New Learning-and Reflecting on our Action Checking Term 3, Week 1-3, 2020 Scanning & Focusing Our team is working together to establish an engaging and varied maths programme for our students, which combines the following elements: * Concept * Inquiry * Warm-up * Independent tasks (informed by Rob Proffitt-White - see slide 6 ) We reflected and discussed maths learning at length as a whole team and began our Team Inquiry . Within this, we have formed teaching partnerships with one other, so we can focus more closely on each individual student. Amber and Lisa began co-planning and teaching, and then shared their planning process with the team in Term 3, week 3. Katie, my teaching partner and I, have developed our own similar plan, using their basis. Term 3, Week 4-6, 2020 Developing a Hunch Katie and I are working together, and collaboratively planning maths for all our students. We decided to meet f...

TEACHING AS INQUIRY: WRITING  Focusing Inquiry What is important given where my students are at? I have chosen to focus on three students in writing. A full description of their current development can be found here . Teaching Inquiry What strategies (evidence-based) are most likely to help my students learn? * Providing rich motivations * Giving students audiences/platforms for sharing their writing (wall, blog, sharing with other teachers) * Writing criteria (visual) and explicit feedback (verbal) * Individual modelling, prompting, praise and questioning Teaching & Reflection - (Action) T erm 1 The Baseline Situation * Variation in writing stimulus and topics engaged students * Modelling was kept short, but didn't engage all students. How can I increase involvement during modelling? * We did lots of writing about ourselves: favourite playground, a family member * Students loved ...

I have been undertaking this course by part time study this year, and have loved the learning involved!  Talking with teachers and leaders from other schools has been refreshing and reassuring...many of us have gone through the highs and challenges of working collaboratively. The  collaboration strategies  others have shared have been really helpful, along with my learning e.g. * Identify your partner's strengths and values (e.g. using the Hermann brain model) * Identify and clear on your own values, strengths and challenges * Identify shared goals, e.g., for my colleague and I this year, that has been wellbeing and behaviour * Use humour  * Don't sweat the small stuff - choose what matters most and discuss that first * Establish and stick to tight meeting times e.g. 15min daily catchups * Establish clear and agreed strategies for behaviour management, including special measures / strategies for those with additional needs * Keep a dot point journal of...