Mind Lab - Week 21 - Develop your action plan (Learn)

Professional learning
Inquire into and reflect on the effectiveness of practice in an ongoing way,
using evidence from a range of sources.

Be informed by research and innovations related to: content disciplines;
pedagogy; teaching for diverse learners, including learners with disabilities
and learning support needs; and wider education matters.

Linking your Research Essay to your Action Plan
Define your community(ies)




Defining the key terms in your inquiry questions

How can the use of robotics and learning with collaborative groups, be used to promote
student engagement and have a positive impact on mathematical outcomes?
Robotics - BeeBots, ProBots, Mbots and EV3s to learn mathematical number knowledge concepts.
Collaborative groups - shared responsibility, making substantive decisions with other people and work
being interdependent on others - heterogeneous learning groups for collaborative tasks
Student Engagement - In practice students are actively engaged in the task - through teacher observations, students are asking questions, behaviour is appropriate, motivational level when they come in to the classroom in the mornings is high, completing of tasks can be seen on tracking sheet
Mathematical Outcome - Knowledge pre and post tests show improvement in scores
Your actions and timeframe

Input resources - robotics, knowledge test, collaboration, maths resources
Activities with others (outputs)  - teachers, students, parents, robotics stuff, independent work,
collaboration, groupings, increased engagement
Impact - Outcomes - knowledge tests
Consider how these actions will help to address your inquiry question.

Integrating the Principles of Kaupapa Māori into your Teacher Inquiry

Whānau - the family structure principle and the question that you can consider is:
  • To what extent will the students’ whānau be involved in the inquiry?
We will ensure that parents know what is going on in the classroom so they can have those discussions at home and support the learning. This will be in the newsletter, Meet the Teacher and Parent-teacher meetings. Therefore there will be written information and face to face meetings. Ensure parents of target students get additional emails (personal), feedback of progress that they can take home.

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