School Meetings with JT

Meeting with Facilitator
7th March 2008
First meeting with Jan, regarding how to implement inquiry learning at Taitoko School. After coming back from conference with several new ideas and some inquiry knowledge I decided I needed to do a little professional reading around Inquiry learning.
The icwc wikispace thanks to Jan helped me get started and then with some knowledge of schools that are using an inquiry model, I got onto the internet and started researching about inquiry learning to broaden my understanding.

After meeting with Jan we decided that we would start with the theory of inquiry learning and finding out what the teachers think inquiry is. This providing us with a platform to know what next?
We then put togehter an action plan for staff meetings as well as writing our goals for 2008.
Things that needed to continue to create sustainabilty were:
-continue to upskill staff by introducing sandpit time and a buddy system
-as part of appraisals teachers are expected to incude an ICT goal
-continue to improve systems for maintaing equipment and teacher frustrations with ICT







After our important meetings with Jan T we have put in place an action plan for staff professional development around Inquiry learning. Step by step process so that we collectively we come to a comon understaning of What is Inquiry.