QED021 Professional Practice and Inquiry

Strategy 1: Make Field Notes

- The first week is crucial

- E.g. study: why are students restless?

- Capture what is occurring, not your own subjective interpretation of it

Strategy 2: Analyze Students’ Work

- Note students’ working

- Choosing appropriate students’ work

Strategy 3: Solicit for Input

- From CT and / or critical friend

- From students – formal (blogs, surveys) and informal (interviews, surveys)

Strategy 4: Using test scores, assessments and grades

- Note whether there are extremes in grades

Theory: does not determine classroom practice ‘in a technical way but is liable to be influenced, even rendered irrelevant, by moral consideration’ (Carr, 1995, p. 324).

Learning: about asking the right questions and questioning one’s assumptions.

See YouTube videos on teaching:

- The Ron Clark Story (2006) [Matthew Perry]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-OwqrcUlGM

- The Mona Lisa Smile (2003) [Julia Roberts]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkteNuJepzU