TAI 2020 WFRC Question #2
#2: Collaborate with your senior leadership team and colleagues to identify areas where your inquiry will make a powerful contribution to wider school and cluster goals.
#2: Collaborate with your senior leadership team and colleagues to identify areas where your inquiry will make a powerful contribution to wider school and cluster goals.
As a school, one of our goals this year is to be singing the same tune or making sure we are on the same page. This is across all areas of learning and school life from behaviour management, to what is being implemented in classes as well as best teaching practices.
Our 2 main learning area focuses are on Maths for the first half of the year, then Reading.
Our learning conversations in our team meetings have been mainly around Maths and how we can combine the approaches of DMIC (Developing Mathematical Inquiring Communities) that worked well over our last 2 years of PD, together with micro-teaching of strategies and number knowledge.
This is where I'd like to start with my CoL inquiry this year. Looking at Maths, how it can be implemented using whatever approach works best, but cater mainly to students who are still 3-4 years behind in maths.
This would be useful towards my team and wider school as we are focusing our PD sessions around maths for these first two terms of the year. I also hope to find other teachers who are inquiring into maths to share ideas and research with throughout this inquiry journey for 2020.
Hello, I am very interested in your inquiry this year, a I find bring together ideas and best practice from multiple sources is challenging. I remember Danni Stone doing this in the area of Maths for her dissertation. She ,might be able to provide you with some useful research to support your mission. What thoughts have you had so far looking at early data?
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this inquiry. I will be following it closely.