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=Teacher Inquiry at Plateau School=

**Why do Inquiry?**
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**Reflection**
//"Often in our classrooms we get so busy planning for and managing the lessons we do with our students that we don’t allow ourselves time to reflect. Charles Handy makes the following observation:// //"In order to find some answers, people have to draw back from life occasionally, to concentrate on the things that really matter. When people are very busy they lose themselves in their busy-ness and are unaware of anything, apart from the little bit of the world they are occupying. This is when it is necessary to use the arts of different sorts to help us step back and recover our perspective."// //Taking the time to reflect critically on the things we are doing in our classrooms is perhaps the most effective thing we can do to ensure that what we are doing is having the desired outcomes, and is changing our practice in the ways we want it to.//" (Wenmoth, 2007)

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Some of our resources:

Plateau School Teacher Inquiry PowerPoint Presentation Template Plateau School Teacher Inquiry Planner Plateau School Teacher Inquiry Peer Observation sheet

Inquiry Diagram
Teacher Professional Learning and Development Helen Timperley, Aaron Wilson, Heather Barrar, and Irene Fung, University of Auckland Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration [BES]