Use the ‘inquiry stock take doc to reflect on and write about what you aim to learn about inquiry this year.

TAI2020WRFC Inquiry question#1: 

Use the ‘inquiry stock take doc to reflect on and write about what you aim to learn about inquiry this year.

Here is my inquiry stock take reflection:
What worked well- Help from Dr Jannie Van Hees, Student voice, Whanau engagement, Causal chain, weekly monitoring and Feedbacks from Hana.
Challenges-Time management to cater to all students due to their career pathways, Maintaining the whanau engagement periodically and meeting the deadline.
Additional support- Buddy up with the same subject teacher(stand-alone courses) and more collaboration within each other.

Aspects of inquiry	What worked well	Challenges	Additional support that would be helpful
Identifying valued learning outcomes (VLOs) to focus on	The detailed frameworks provided after each session. WFRC support. Referred to end of year assessments from the previous year - had post data discussions with fellow CoL teachers within the school Good support and Feedbacks from WFRC. Student voice.	Time constraints as the diversity of the learners’ are huge.	Meetings to read/go over previous blogs / focus to see if anything has been done in your chosen area before.
Profiling students’ learning in those VLOs	Referred to data and identified who our target students are Whanau engagement (Hui and Fono’s)	Maintaining whanau engagement by talking to them periodically.	To bring in, everyone.
Generating hypotheses (especially teaching)	Collaborate with teachers and other schools with the same type of inquiry.	How far the hypotheses will be successful.	More the time during CoL PLG to discuss if needed.
Testing hypotheses (investigating own teaching)	Collecting student voice via google forms, videos etc.. Peer teacher/HOD observation. Comparing topic by topic with the previous year results/Decile 1 schools’ results.	Meeting deadline in case if it fails.	Ongoing feedbacks whether are I on track.
Using research literature and other sources to identify more effective approaches	ALL intervention ALIM intervention Best Evidence Synthesis (BES)	Knowing where to look for the correct kind of research on the particular topics.	A central “bank” that we could all add to, so we can see a breadth of reading being done and dip in.
Implementing new approaches	Having the freedom to try new ideas.	Not wanting to waste valuable class time with ideas that may not be successful The realities of busy classroom finding ‘how’ to implement within this. Meeting the deadline.	Always consult with expertise before put it on the action.
Monitoring (and tweaking) new approaches	Having previous blog posts to refer back to. Causal chain. Weekly monitoring. After school and holidays tutoring. Peer teaching.	Hard to get feedback for standalone courses.	Always have a mentor.
Evaluate shifts in own teaching	Trying something new and changing teacher practice Inter lead reflections Great to have a COL buddy capture the changes through observation and conversation	Very challenging in a big diversity class.	Feedback.
Evaluate shifts in student learning	Student voice. Conversation with learners. Discussion between Student and Teacher. Data Analysis.	Measuring key Competencies and self-efficacy. Narrow data gathering and honing in.	Feedback.
Keep a clear and detailed record of all stages of inquiry	Step-by-step process explicitly provided Keeping labels on blog Posts comments/emails from Hana were great.

what you aim to learn about inquiry this year?
I would like to dive deeper into literacy strategies, more collaboration with colleagues and whanau, working with experts, working with other schools for stand-alone courses and feed backs to colleagues.