Staff Meeting - The Inquiry Cycle - Tuesday 13th September 2016

What does this cycle need to do?
- Guide the teacher in planning
- Shared language for new members of staff/students
- Can be used across all areas of the curriculum
- Supports towards a genuine purpose
- Something that inspires the students
- Student agency (choice and control)
- Student ownership
- Contextualisation - Why is this important to me?
- Making connections - Something to hang new learning on

Professional Readings - Choice Words (Chapters 1-2) - Peter H. Johnston

What I gained from these chapters

Further Examples

Choice Words - Research Matters

Opening Minds - Peter H. Johnston

Staff Meeting - Report Writing Workshop - Thursday 8th September 2016

- Complete the reports in Pages - templates for each class will be sent out - Calendar has details of when to save where.
- Have 6 reports to team leader by the end of this term.
- Be specific about what students can do.
- Don't be afraid to mention areas that they can improve in.
- Ensure that levels are equivalent through the report.
- The general comment is your opportunity to show how well you know the student. This is also where you can mention any notable achievements.
- Languages and Media are not given a section/level on the report - if you want to mention these areas do so in the general comments section.
- Student voice is given on the back page in the 'Take up the challenge' section. Get the students to carry out this task in Room 13 time on a doc and then send to you.
- Teachers must enter Tech Arts/Science levels when they receive these from the Specialist teachers.

Staff Meeting - PYP - Tuesday 6th September 2016

- Is the inquiry cycle the same as, connected to or different to inquiry?
- Which of the standards in C3 support the idea of having an inquiry cycle?
- How do we use the inquiry cycle at Berkley?
Books, Connections, Displays, Planning (SUP, Bubble), Guiding research, Used in Numeracy and Literacy (not explicitly)
Needs to be explicit in all Units of Inquiry
- Ask students "Where are you now? Where might you go next?"
- New Kath Murdoch Inquiry Cycle?

7 Misconceptions about the Inquiry Cycle

Expert Group and Home Group Activity

Looking at various Inquiry Cycles

The Power of Inquiry - Kath Murdoch

Cycle vs. Process???

Always reflecting

UOI Book Monitoring - Thursday 1st September 2016

Today we met as a team with Beth (the PYP co-ordinator at Berkley) to look over our UOI books and discuss how we could improve our practice. Here is a link to the notes I took for next steps during this meeting:

Book Monitoring Meeting

Staff Meeting - Te Reo - Thursday 1st September 2016