Jan Marie Kellow - Cluster Workshop

The day spent with Jan was enlightening. It showed us a new perspective of thoughts on Inquiry as well as cementing thoughts we already had. She started with asking us what we thought "INQUIRY" was and the different skills associated with it. Some of these we already were aware of but we learnt of others

Inquiry - Problem solving in school

Jan Thomas visited today and suggested some strategies and processes to help us and the school move forward in developing our Inquiry model. We discussed processes already in place and next steps to move towards our draft trial model by the end of the year. We need to create a support booklet for staff - this can be an altered version of Coley Streets book adapted to the needs of our school. We need to develop a schoolwide set of thinking maps and graphic organisers (electronic would be better). She also suggested a planning template be designed in draft format by the end of Term 4 to be used in ETap - a friendlier version than what we have been using.