Shared Current Practice
Teaching as inquiries are linked to appraisals
Video appraisals based on set goals at the start of the year film 3 times per term and reflect on this with team leaders each term - very beneficial to video
Time at the beginning of the year - working in pairs of ‘like experience’ released to go into each others class to get a sense of what is going on
Team appraisal - goals and inquiry question and collecting evidence in each team. End of year whole staff meeting for teams to present their inquiries. Team inquiry is linked to maths PLD - aligining PLD with peer coaching and inquiry - makes PLD more meaningful and transparent
Teachers council to develop a base line to integrate inquiry and appraisal - 12 teachers and senior leaders - a lot of people have a standardised approach as opposed to a flexible approach i.e. different for a beginning teacher and experienced teacher. Developing a cohesive project which takes into account different teachers - one size does not fit all.
Recording teaching as inquiry
Recording teaching as inquiry in teacher ePortfolios - will be shared with whole staff in Term 4
- Appraisal packs have been given electronically - add evidence to support the development or achievement of goal and registered teacher criteria e.g childrens work, reflections
- Blogs
- Video
- shared teacher drive and published docs of various teacher inquiries
- Principal inquiries are also shared with staff
Teacher Observations -
Written teacher reflections against the Registered Teacher Criteria… Pretty full on and in depth but not a lot of ongoing reflection.
Trying to develop a model linking RTC, Teaching as Inquiry and Jan Robertson model of self reflection and peer coaching to deepen inquiries. Also the idea of descriptive observation rather than critical observation with the critique coming more from the teacher's own reflection on the description. - Could you use the GROW model for this?
what is GROW? A leadership model that has the Teacher at the centre rather than the coach as the expert. Goal - Reality - Options - What now or Where next. Can be used in conjunction with SMART goal setting.
Magic number is 5 - focus your inquiry onto no more than 5 students!
. Is it about the coach and teacher or shaped around evidence of specific student achievement and student voice?
Move inquiry question to refocus direction.
Halbert & Kaser, Spirals of Inquiry 2013
Using hard, cold data /evidence to improve achievement
Inquiry not a solitary pursuit
collective vision
