Appreciative Inquiry

Process for 2011

Focusing Inquiry -Establishing baseline and direction.

Resources:
Where is there potential to creatively integrate
ICT? What might be? Staff Meeting –
exploring ideas
Discovering

Team Meetings –
Find out what students can already do and what looking at overall plan.
more they need to learn. Refer to National
Tutorial –Lyn
Curriculum (Viewing and Presenting). Capture
initial data.
You –think, seek, search

Teaching Inquiry - The teacher uses evidence from research and from their own past
practice and that of colleagues to plan teaching and learning opportunities aimed at
achieving the outcomes prioritised in the focusing inquiry.

What craft knowledge do I already have? Search Resources:

you own and colleagues’ past practice for
strategies that may be more effective, and also Team Leaders clarify
look into research literature to see what has
Designing

with you.
worked in other contexts.
You –think, design
Complete initial plan. What are you going to
James/Lyn –professional
do? Strengthen?
readings, links,
references

Learning Inquiry -takes place both during and after teaching Resources:
• Colleagues support –
on-line and team
Monitor students’ progress towards identified meetings
outcomes and reflect on what this tells them. • Tutorials/observations
–Lyn and Colleague
Delivering

• You –think, trial,

reflect, improve
• Student voice
Use this new information to decide what to do • School itips sessions
next to ensure continued improvement in • Visit other teachers?
student achievement and in your own practice. • eShare (Cluster)
• Your class blog
 Summarise –reflect on progress, observations, Resources:
current vs initial data. How did it go? What
Data-observations,
strategies have made a difference to my
Evaluate
students’ learning? student voice, survey,

What will you do now? Present findings.

There are also catchup workshops (cluster) led by Lyn.

Some staff are attending learning@school conference