Inquiring into your teaching practice enables the identification of successful approaches to improving learning outcomes for all students. It provides an opportunity to focus on identifying successful approaches for improving learning outcomes for all learners, in particular those that may be target students in your classroom.
"Since any teaching strategy works differently in different contexts for different students, effective pedagogy requires that teachers inquire into the impact of their teaching on their students."
Ministry of Education, 2007, p. 35
Inquiry as a disposition
Sharon Friesen talks about inquiry being a disposition cultivated during teaching and learning, rather than a process that "gets done" by students in this In this EDtalks video.
Teacher inquiry should be based on your students' learning needs, your own learning needs, and the impact of your practice on student learning and achievement.
Teacher professional learning and development: Best evidence synthesis iteration (BES)
When you participate effectively in a cycle of reflection and review, your learning will be linked to evidence of impact. The New Zealand Curriculum (pages 34–35) and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa (pages 13–16) describe some of the teaching approaches that research shows to have a consistently positive impact on student learning.
Teaching as inquiry
The Teaching as Inquiry cycle is an organising framework to help teachers learn from their practice and build greater knowledge.
Spiral of inquiry
Timperly, Kaser and Halbert (2014) focus on a rethink of the cycle of inquiry (2007) to the spiral of inquiry. An important difference in this new approach is involving learners, their families, and communities in inquiries.
SAMR Model
A framework through which teachers can assess and evaluate the technology used in the classroom.
Key resources
Teaching as Inquiry: VLN
This online discussion group provides extensive information, templates, resources, and examples to help you develop your inquiry, gather evidence, and reflect on your inquiry.Teacher standards and e-learning
Guiding questions, examples, and resources to support your e-learning inquiry under each standard.
Using technologies offers new ways of learning, teaching, and engaging with students and whānau that can be used to improve learning outcomes for all students.
Your inquiry should intentionally pair technology with an inclusive pedagogy and a collaborative way of working to yield a rich field of data/observations for reflection.
Identify your:
Focusing inquiry | Inquiry strategies | Inquiry tools (digital technologies) |
My learners are reluctant writers who tell me they have nothing to write about (ideas/words). |
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Once you have decided on your inquiry question, identify which digital tool you are investigating to support student learning.
If I use [insert relevant digital tool] with [insert class level, subject, topic/focus], to what extent does it help students learn?
Anna Swann, from Holy Cross School, explains her teacher inquiry into using Google docs to enhance achievement and engagement in writing with boys. She found the barriers to the writing were removed and the boys' attitudes changed.
Classroom-based examples describing how educators intentionally pair digital technologies with inclusive pedagogy to improve learning outcomes for students.
School stories demonstrating how teachers plan and inquire into their practice, intentionally pair digital technologies with inclusive pedagogy to improve learning outcomes for students.
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Key resource
A framework for transforming learning in schools: Innovation and the spiral of inquiry
This paper by Timperly, Kaser, and Halbert focuses on a rethink of the cycle of inquiry (2007) to the spiral of inquiry.
Researchers, Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser provide a concise, practical introduction to using the Spirals of Inquiry, an evidence-based model of collaborative inquiry.
Teacher standards and e-learning
Guiding questions, examples, and resources to support your e-learning inquiry under each standard.
Professional inquiry into e-learning
An inquiry approach to developing effective professional learning supported by video stories, discussion questions, and resources.
Teachers as learners: Improving outcomes for Māori and Pasifika students through inquiry
These learning materials illustrate how teachers have used an inquiry approach to teaching to become more culturally responsive and to improve outcomes for their Māori and Pasifika students.
Spiral of inquiry: Leaders leading learning
This resource promotes the leadership of collaborative, evidence-informed inquiry in ways that keep learners’ progress at the centre. It provides field-tested tools and ideas to support leaders and teachers to apply spirals of inquiry, learning and action with their learners.
This group in the VLN is a space for teachers to ask questions and share ideas, resources, and links.