Professional Development: Maeroa Intermediate School: Preparing our Students for their Future
Monday 31st August
2pm - 6pm
Recap: Maeroa Intermediate School mission/motto, vision, values & beliefs about learning
1. Maeroa Intermediate Learner Profile
- Where are we at?
- What have
- What has changed since our last session
- What is next
2. Sharing Session
3. Inquiry Process
- Learning Stories
- Learning Language
4. Planning
- How do we make this happen?
John Hattie's 8 Mindframes
Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner
“Students are the power tools of change in education. They are the most ignored and they have the most at stake.”
Enacting the Learner Profile through Inquiry
Clarifying Inquiry
- Model Inquiry
- Develop learning stories through Inquiry?
- Develop and model the language of the learner profile?
- Gather evidence?
Maeroa Inquiry Model
Stage
Descriptors
Tuning In
To engage students in the topic
To gauge student interest and attitudes
To find out what students believe - (understandings and
misconceptions)
To provide opportunities for students to share what they
already know and believe
To introduce / clarify language
To identify gaps in knowledge and misconceptions
To assist with planning the unit
Finding Out
To
take students beyond what they already know
To
challenge students’ ideas, beliefs and values
To
enable students to use skills (e.g. thinking, communication, co-operation,
research) and knowledge to collect new information
Sorting Out & Making Connections
To sort out, organise, represent and present information
from the Finding Out stage of the unit
To provide opportunities for students to use their
preferred ways of learning to demonstrate their learning (knowledge, skills,
values)
Going Further
To extend and broaden the unit if appropriate
To allow students to investigate areas of personal interest
To provide opportunities for students to use their
preferred learning style
To present another perspective on, or dimension to, the
topic
Reflection
To provide opportunities for students to think about their
learning — how they learnt, what they learnt and why?
To identify changes in skills, knowledge and values
To draw conclusions and make connections between ideas
Action
To identify what students have learnt and the implications
for personal actions
To enable students to make choices and apply their ideas
To enable students to relate their learning to real-life
situations
When a person picks up an inquiry book can they?
- Tell.see/understand what the inquiry is about?
- See a shift in student's thinking?
- See interaction between people's thinking?
Student - Student
Teacher - Student - Teacher
Student - Teacher
