tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17873844417238561852024-02-20T06:12:36.838+13:00Monique Clark's Professional BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-72663736505187952672016-09-20T08:13:00.005+12:002016-09-20T08:14:22.889+12:00Inquiry update - Where am I up to..?<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UCQQdpWEc2wy7rYpHzsa3tUtFNm2mjCNUMfQ30_RyV4/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="480" height="299" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-59421239822947906942016-05-24T15:51:00.001+12:002016-05-24T15:51:08.730+12:00My Inquiry - What have I learnt so far<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mSosR-Sz03Ja600P1wHoKdRgNtwqMtshB5o019BDW5o/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="480" height="299" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-49623078732368466752016-03-29T21:30:00.001+13:002016-03-29T21:30:16.438+13:00My Inquiry 2016<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My inquiry for 2016 is based on h<span id="docs-internal-guid-8a4e4905-bfc1-f3d6-07c3-0095ff1f3005"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ow can I get more reading milage for my students and still get critical thinking in independent activities?</span></span></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My aim is to provide a variety of texts that are lengthier therefore the students are getting more mileage. In particular we will be looking at a few 'classic' novels that give them the opportunity to get their mileage up.</span></span></span></span></div>
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My inquiry this year was based on higher order thinking questions to accelerate learning (in reading). Here is my reflection for the year <b>2015.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-80365559685580178642015-10-20T16:23:00.000+13:002015-10-20T16:23:22.198+13:00Today's inquiry group discussions - Barriers to student learning <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpRRGWps4_0wQLKaCzQuwvxdbfc-QZQ1jQiJFb0JNtEmzS2TdN9X7KbeMqZw29oZDbcUrhDwj64C_QCqSZjp0ZJg2sz9UscpSCgXxQMDDhveRpIGwmuXaUcnXbFackA5Ba8GjZFU3UgI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-10-20+at+4.19.29+PM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpRRGWps4_0wQLKaCzQuwvxdbfc-QZQ1jQiJFb0JNtEmzS2TdN9X7KbeMqZw29oZDbcUrhDwj64C_QCqSZjp0ZJg2sz9UscpSCgXxQMDDhveRpIGwmuXaUcnXbFackA5Ba8GjZFU3UgI/s320/Screen+Shot+2015-10-20+at+4.19.29+PM.png" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5murwRm749PP4Fgr-O7ziSQgAhr4pODUUfJdKrP5boPr64Sp3za3oc6goxijieJgIT31L2NIsHpqjX7Wyt45zFAU_d1r5R3-yynPBYurtEcxqEldhlZHcJmmABYLjnizhNhI4rc2c0M/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-10-20+at+4.19.56+PM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5murwRm749PP4Fgr-O7ziSQgAhr4pODUUfJdKrP5boPr64Sp3za3oc6goxijieJgIT31L2NIsHpqjX7Wyt45zFAU_d1r5R3-yynPBYurtEcxqEldhlZHcJmmABYLjnizhNhI4rc2c0M/s320/Screen+Shot+2015-10-20+at+4.19.56+PM.png" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-15596373692690636472015-10-20T07:53:00.002+13:002015-10-20T07:53:16.334+13:00Inquiry - What I have learnt so far.<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1676KhKIlG3W4w-uUlLby_xJuVjKpinnli2LceAr9YOo/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="480" height="299" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-5322760196330127932015-08-03T16:45:00.000+12:002015-08-03T16:45:13.328+12:00Inquiry - what I have learnt so farI've been challenged to change my teaching practise this year.... My inquiry has focussed around questions that further engage my students and it's something I am continuing to work on.<br />
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I'm trying to further engage my students in reading through questioning.. I am still learning to provide students with quality questions that challenge their thinking... this will be an ongoing inquiry for me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-70637963150802381692015-07-23T17:23:00.001+12:002015-07-23T17:24:15.827+12:00My inquiry How do scaffold creative higher order thinking tasks to get cognitive engagement?<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sz6m5bbQONu2Eivf6-Sz5C0ACNCctQSgFMp9dPM_0Ys/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" frameborder="0" width="480" height="389" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787384441723856185.post-22031940532520468442015-05-12T10:17:00.001+12:002015-05-12T10:17:36.752+12:00"Developing a Dialogic, Orally Expressive Classroom"<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>This term, the team 4 and 5 teachers are participating in Professional Development with Dr. Jannie van Hees. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students need to use their brains at a higher level of complexity than they are currently. This will only properly happen if students are able to practice. Providing students an opportunity to participate in a Think-Aloud that has multiple steps, which potentially puts them on the spot provides an extremely important life skill. Students need to have orally shaping conversations that will allow them to “hold on” to information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our day-to-day priority of conversation enhances the learning of our students, in addition to the actual curriculum covered. Students are required to participate in a more enriching manner. Students have to contribute, be focused, have meaningful things to provide, etc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a daily basis, students should be provided with a chance to have conversation. Topics could be anything that the teacher suggests or that is student prompted. This provides a chance for formative assessment, both on the topic and a students language ability. This allows the teacher a meaningful opportunity to provide gifted words (including definitions) to help expand the vocabulary of their class. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Point to ponder: How many questions do you ask your students on a daily basis? Questions do not provide opportunities for students to expand their thinking and language. They provide a way for students to dig deeper into their own resources instead of expanding their thinking and engaging their understanding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I chose this as my inquiry focus for the reason that a focus for me has been to extend and scaffold higher order thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To get this students needed to be provided with 'quality questions'. This is something I feel there is much improvement for.</span></div>
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