Teaching as Inquiry - Example
Questions
Focusing Inquiry
• What data/evidence/information do I have to support this?
• How do I know that this evidence is valid?
• What are the learnerʼs priorities
• What are my priorities (the teacherʼs) with this group of learners?
• What have they learned and what do they need to learn?
• Where are we going with this? What do we need to achieve?
Teaching Inquiry
• What have I learned from in the past that can help me out now?
• What do I need to plan for in order to achieve the goals?
• What do I need to do to help my students best learn this?
• What are the best-practice examples of this teaching?
• How can I best measure results against expected learning
outcomes?
• How do I communicate this?
• How can I co-construct this with the learners?
• Where should I spend the most of my teaching time?
Learning Inquiry (Formative/Summative)
• How did it (is it) go? What does my evaluation tell me (so far)?
• What evidence tells me it was/is successful?
• How is does my evidence present itself and how is it deeper
than the ʻsurfaceʼ?
• How can I trust the data? How am I interrogating the
evidence?
• What does the evidence really tell me?
• What do my colleagues think about it?
• What impact did the teaching have?
• What am I (the learners) going to do with this next?
• What impact does this have on future teaching and learning?
• What has changed? What needs to change?