Stop Start ContinueToday started with a reflection on the last training day.
Expectations and Planning
Parking Lot: Questions
Neuroscience of learning:
The practice of writing can enhance the brain’s intake, processing, retaining and retrieving information . It promotes the brains attentive focus…boost long term memory illuminates patterns and gives the brain time for reflection , Judy Willis.
Articulate what each of the pictures mean to me in my leadership journey so far.
I chose three pictures to represent where I am on my enquiry journey and
Connect| Extend| Challenge
What did I connect with?
Idea that I connected with the idea that enquiry is about YOUR classroom. The impact your professional actions you want to take up to empower your staff/pupils.
What did it make me think more about?
Made me think more about
What didn’t make sense or further challenge me?
Challenged my perception of what enquiry means in regards to either classroom practise or leadership practise. Your classroom is the learning Environment you create with staff or with pupils.
National practice model in regards with professional learning and teacher leadership:
It is easier to cascade a culture if you are leading enquiry with staff
Challenges of Professional Enquiry
“Stance and Project “
What comes first?
Does your project and motivation actually challenge a stance?
Motivation/ Empowerment/Strategy/Disposition
Can you do a project without a stance?
Process of Enquiry
Preparing-Intervening- Sense Making – Reeves and Fox 2008
Change fatigue
DIFFERENT MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL ENQUIRY
https://professionallearning.education.gov.scot/explore/the-national-model-of-professional-learning/
https://www.gtcs.org.uk/professional-update/practitioner-enquiry.aspx
COMPASS POINT ACTIVITIES
Proces
Content
Leadership actions
Good to see that others have the same view points: shared expectation
Process of Enquiry : Ferghal Kelly:
Action Research Cycle: Jump in at any point
What models have I used before?
