Teaching as inquiry

Key questions for teachers to ask of their teaching practice:

• What happened as a result of the teaching? And what are the implications for future teaching?
• Is there something I need to change?
• What are the next steps for learning?
• What strategies (evidence-based) are most likely to help my students learn this?

Examples of teacher actions to support teaching as inquiry:

• analysing students’ answers
• understanding student’s misconceptions and devising appropriate teaching responses
• noticing, understanding and responding
• using the curriculum objectives to design a sequence of lessons
• using the numeracy framework.

Specific activities

• Giving a brief diagnostic quiz at the beginning of the lesson and framing the lesson based on student responses.
• Teacher discussion with colleagues based on noticing and understanding of the impact on student learning of teacher actions and reactions during a lesson.
• Activity: 100m sprint times
• Activity: Legal driving age
• Activity: How many babies 

Further information

• Anthony, G., & Walshaw, M. (2009). Worthwhile mathematical tasks. Effective pedagogy in mathematics (pp. 13-14). Belley: Gonnet Imprimeur.
• Anthony, G., & Walshaw, M. (2009). Teacher knowledge assessment for learning. Effective pedagogy in mathematics (pp. 25-26). Belley: Gonnet Imprimeur.

 

Last updated September 10, 2024

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