Now ask me the same questions again after having been to the Spiral of Learning workshop. What an amazing revelation of how I needed to refocus my thinking about how teaching as inquiry should look like and the process to undertake to get there. First and foremost to rethink the structure and depth of questions. Then thinking about what result do you want before you begin the whole inquiry process.
This whole Spiral of Learning process is incredibly important to help change and improve our classroom practice and to reflect on those changes and the impact it has had on your students. I have included the slide that was presented at the workshop by Janelle Riki and Ray Burkhill.
The Seminar Series 234 (2nd slide) is an amazing research piece about each of the spiral stages. Well worth the read to fully understand this process.
This was a great workshop Vicki - thanks for your work on this. I found this model very helpful for me too. I had to go back and refocus on my inquiry afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying our conversations about teaching as Inquiry this year and our elearning vision - you are really thinking big picture and it's great to have someone else on board to do this!!