Presentation Response Structure Pre Presentation Instructions

1
Presentation Response StructurePre Presentation
Instructions

• You are officially EMPOWERED, AUTHORIZED AND
  ENCOURAGED to get up out of your seats, DURING
  THE PRESENTATION and write a response to any or
  all of the posted question sheets.
• Please feel free to
• Provide your answer to the question.
• Record your thoughts.
• Respond to a listed comment.
• List associated ideas.
• Ask a question of the question or listed
  comments.
• List your assumptions.
• List a thought provoking original comment.

2
PresentationCollegial InquiryA Practice for
Talking and Thinking about PracticeChapter 7

• PresentersBruce Abriel Carolyn Champagne
• February 11, 2008

3
Theres nothing like putting together good
educators and having them talk with each other
about what theyre doing You get a lot of
synergy out of that.
(Jerry Zank, Cantebury School)
4
About Collegial Inquiry (CI) and Reflective
Practice

• Not everyone remembers that as adult educators
  we are also adult learners.
• Key Points
• Theoretical Principles Reflective practice is
  an under used tool that supports teacher learning
  and promotes professional development.
• CI in the Professional Development Literature
  Inquiry as Stance teachers learning by
  focusing on teacher knowledge, teacher practice
  and the relationship between the two. Leadership
  Responsibilities must be shared but it must come
  with authority to be valued. Principals roles
  changes to one of key communication, coordination
  and fostering a fertile school environment.
• A Developmental view of CI supporting and
  challenging the different ways we make meaning.
  Increased awareness of ones own inconsistencies
  helps resolve potential conflicts and increases
  the likelihood our considering new and divergent
  ways of knowing an learning.

Key Points from Pages 103 - 107
5
Ways in which Principals Employ Collegial Inquiry

• Reflection through writing
• free writing, journal keeping, proposal writing
• Through dialogue and feedback
• curriculum development, faculty meetings,
  conflict resolution
• Through decision making
• Through serving as key consultants and/or
  researchers

6
Principals and Collegial Inquiry

• Helps them to include others in leadership.
• Helps to manage change.
• Emphasizes the value of learning from different
  perspectives.

Table 7.2 page 108-109
7
Summary of Collegial Inquiry

• Teachers are valued and feel more important as
  leaders in the school. (Important is this
  context is referring to the consideration one
  senses / receives from their administrator).
• Teachers feel empowered (and are given and take
  on active roles) as agents of shaping the change
  process.
• Teachers have time together (during the school
  day) to reflect, consider and exchange ideas and
  information.
• Teachers develop an improved awareness of their
  own assumptions and better understanding of the
  skills and talents of their colleagues.
• Communication is improved across the staff and
  within the school.
• An improved sense of community and ownership is
  fostered among the staff as a complete group.
  Consequently, the change process becomes more
  meaningful and unified as does the efforts and
  movement of change.

8
To Post Consider

• How does Collegial Inquiry support teacher
  learning?
• What are some of the best practices an
  administrator could / should implement?
• How could organizing staff PD around analysis of
  current practice be helpful?
• How can a school leader / administrator promote
  respect and trust in a teachers ability. What
  good things might this level of respect promote?
• How can teachers who knowingly operate in very
  different ways engage in authentic and peaceful
  collegial inquiry?
• What key characteristic is imperative to adopt
  and maintain throughout the process of collegial
  inquiry, and most importantly, why?

9

• Fertile an educational environment where the
  seeds of high quality education and collective
  inquiry can grow and be harvested annually in
  abundance.

Encyclopedia Blabilonia