Digital Intensive Week 7: Teaching As Inquiry - What should Kiwi Teachers be doing?

While going through the resources section this week - Teaching As Inquiry - What should Kiwi Teachers be doing? I realized that how important this site is so decided to make some notes to keep myself on toes all the time.

Link on TKI site.

Main page with lots of links:

As I scrolled down I saw :

When I clicked on Teaching as Inquiry:

And when I clicked on Spiral of Inquiry PDF, I located the spiral which, looks like this: 

And then the SAMR Model.

All these models are so significant in our day to day teaching we educators need to constantly monitor ourselves and our teaching practice via the Teaching As Inquiry. This is to empower and enhance teaching and learning. 

Staff Meeting: Teaching as Inquiry (TAI)

Today's staff meeting was taken by Viena from our school. This is because she is one of our CoL teacher's. CoL stands for Community of Learning, which is governed by Manaiakalani Trust. 

For our meeting, each teacher was to share what our Teaching as Inquiry (TAI) has been or is. Also whether are we looking at changing our TAI or continue working on it. It was very rewarding listening to each others TAI. After the shared discussion, Viena asked us if we can relate our inquiry to one of the CoL Teacher's Achievement Challenge and then fill out slide 6 of - CoL Teachers Staff Meeting Term 3 2017 by duplicating it. 

As for my TAI - it's about using multi-modal texts in reading lessons to raise student understanding of the text to raise student achievement. So I found Rebecca Rowe's CoL Inquiry, which closely relates to what I am trying to achieve. 

I am really excited that at least I found someone who is actually doing something similar to what I am doing. I will always refer to her CoL blog to get some ideas or approaches towards using multi-modal texts in class.