CCC Cluster Teaching As Inquiry

Teacher: Nicky ZampeseSchool: Papanui PrimaryDate: Sept 2010

Goal 1:Increase capability of teachers and principals to improve students’ learning and achievement through e-learning. (Highlight one or two bullets)

Create a supportive learning environment
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Be included in all lessons at their level as appropriate to their individual needs
  • Celebrate their learning by displaying a range of their work
  • Interact positively with other students
  • Interact positively with the teacher

Facilitate shared learning
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Take part in discussions to reach understanding
  • Share and explain their opinions/ideas
  • Question and challenge others appropriately
  • Work cooperatively to achieve group goals

Encourage reflective thought and action
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Discuss how well they have worked
  • Identify what they should do differently in the future to get better
  • Reflect on their goals to guide their action
  • Use thinking tools to help them learn

Enhance the relevance of new learning
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Help decide the learning intentions and success criteria
  • Know what they are learning and why
  • Help decide what they are learning about
  • Identify their next learning step using the success criteria

Make connections to prior learning and experience
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Share what they have learnt with others
  • Learn through authentic, real life tasks and experiences
  • Build on what they already know
  • Relate learning to their everyday lives

Research Questions:

  • What strategies will I use to help my students … decide the LI’s and SC
  • Small group discussion about what it is they are learning to do and what success will look like
  • Consult the Curriculum Document with the students to establish understanding
  • Collaboratively writing the LI’s and SC
  • How will I gather evidence to show increased opportunities for students to … decide the LI’s and SC
  • Photograph our LI’s and SC that the students devised
  • Have other teachers ask the students what their LI’s and SC were before the senior speech finals

Goal 2: Integrate ICT into the NZ Curriculum(Highlight one bullet)

Integrate ICT
Teachers provide opportunities for students to:
  • Make informed decisions about when to use ICT for learning
  • Use a range of ICTs for communication and collaboration
  • Use a range of ICTs for critical thinking and researching
  • Use a range of ICTs for creativity

Learning Area: English

Concept: Communication

Strand: Creating meaning for themselves or others (speaking, writing, presenting)

Making meaning of ideas or information they receive (listening, reading, viewing)

Context:Write and present a speech to entertain, inform or persuade the audience

Research Questions:

  • What tools and strategies will I use to help my students … Use ICTs for communication
  • The students will record their speech using Vocaroo
  • The students will then embed their recording speech onto their wiki page
  • How will I gather evidence to show increased opportunities for students to Use ICTs for communication
  • The students will each have their recorded speech on their wiki page
  • The students will invite family / friends to listen to their speech and post a blog on their page

Goal 3:Strengthen professional learning communities and increase collaboration within and across schools.

Research Question:

  • How will I share the results of my action research with my school and cluster colleagues?
  • I will share the results with my syndicate
  • I will create a link on this page to the students wiki pages so teachers from other clusters can listen to what the children have done
  • What happened as a result of my actions? (Based on the evidence I gathered)
  • The students often referred to the LI’s and SC that they wrote and used these as verbal feedback to each other when listening to the speeches. Most students were able to record and embed their speech onto their wiki page. We are awaiting family feedback and blogs on their speeches.
  • What are my next steps for teaching and learning?
  • To ensure that the students are consistently more involved in setting the LI’s and SC across all curriculum areas. This helps to give them more ownership of their learning and motivation to achieve them.

Link to view students’ wikis and listen to their speeches

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