- What is the tool/concept/idea?
- How have you tested it? What did the testers think?
- Why would we want to use it?
- What is it able to do?
- How has it evolved and what changes have you had to make? How and why?
- What do the learners think of it?
- Is it making a difference or will it make a difference? How do you know?
- What has driven you in the development?
- How is it different from other similar tools?
- What does your team (us) think?
Here my summary of where my inquiry and tool currently sit.
It was great to see all my MIT colleague's tools. In particular, I am eager to use Nicola's, Joanna's and Amber's tools with my students.
As the day went on I started to draw some conclusions about my next steps. They are:
- Develop a supporting Google Site for teacher information and resources (Dorothy suggested I use an additional page on the LITCRICON blog)
- Develop scaffolding resources for all the roles in a literature circle - currently, I have a question poster for the Discussion Director role
- Get some of my Rāwhiti School colleagues to test it
- Set up labels on the blog and video submission Google Form for texts or theme
From Dorothy's notes, we also discussed how important it is to front-load students with behaviour expectations. Students need to apply the Key Competencies and "soft skills" to be successful with the LITCIRCON blog and literature circles.
Bring on October's Manaiakalani Wananga!
Morena Eugene. So from the Dragon's Den session, did you go back and review where you were up to and what was still missing. Did you consider the range of source/tools/evidence /student feedback/KWL to get a more accurate picture of your challenge problem in relation to student learning? What will the tool do to to student
ReplyDeletelearning. What changes have you had to make to your teaching and understanding the relationships between teaching and learning. Have you got a set of hypotheses about patterns in your teaching that could be changed to more effectively address the student learning focus. What reflections did you do to ask and answer these questions? Did you identify a catalytic aspect of student learning to focus on in your inquiry.
Did you have a rich profile (and baseline) of your students’ learning in that aspect
Did you have strong theories about the most effective ways Learn-Create-Share can be used to improve that aspect of student learning
Do you have a rich and objective profile of your own current teaching strengths and needs
Have you used a range of sources/ tools/ evidence about the students to understand their learning in a really rich and detailed way? What sources of evidence did you use to show improved student outcomes
Did you develop a strong profile of their achievement based on sound theories
from a range of relevant sources? Have you considered measures you could use pre- and post- to compare students’ learning before and after your intervention.
You have talked about making changes and tweaks along the way. Explain the reflections and tweaks you have made along the way and the reasons why you made these changes. Share your evidence for these decisions on your Blog.
What methods have you used to collect information about the tweaks?
How have you been systematic in that collection?
What does the information tell you?
What are you going to do with the information in terms of understanding what needed ‘tweaking’ and why?
Thank you Eugene for your work. By keeping your Blog up to date with what you are doing we can see the journey you have been on. It is difficult to second guess why you did what you did, hence my questions above. Good luck in the final section. Read your colleagues blogs and see what you may have missed.