“Am I doing something for my students that they should be doing for themselves?” Gr8 food for thought from Trevor MacKenzie about our inquiry practice. #InquiryMindset

Reflecting on Trevor MacKenzie ‘10 Steps to Nurture Student Ownership of Assessment’ I’m 🤔💭how to make peer/self assessment authentic 4 & valued by Ss & how 2 change parents’ mindsets around assessment/reporting being the sole role/responsibility of the teacher?#InquiryMindsets

Including the use of exemplars to support & scaffold Ss process of co-constructing rubrics so that they may examine, critique & analyze as they build the language of the rubric! Makes total sense! #InquiryMindset Trevor MacKenzie #inquiry #ibpyp #studentagency

This is such an important point to make Trevor MacKenzie! I’ve heard countless Ts struggling with what they perceive as tension from feeling like they have to choose between direction instruction & student-driven independent inquiry. #InquiryMindset

Interesting strategy for building question generating competency from Trevor MacKenzie: The Question Formulation Technique in 90 Seconds. youtu.be/04cHyeUVuKg #InquiryMindset

Very important point from Trevor MacKenzie #InquiryMindset

Great session re. Liberating Planning from the Planner with CF at the #PYPPlanningMeetUp with Toddle - “What is 1 thing you would change about your planning after this session?”

Fantastic article focusing on 🇦🇺’s edu system (& edu globally). As a user, builder & facilitator of private fee paying education for the economically & socially privileged, how are we contributing to a dysfunctional system & what can/should we change? theguardian.com/australia-news…

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What Is Genius Hour? An Overview For The Classroom - TeachThought PD buff.ly/3vfyykV

Excited to be part of such a vibrant international community!

We are so proud to have funded Project Zero's research 'A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting playful learning in classrooms and schools'. Read the book for free here: pz.harvard.edu/projects/pedag…

I just recorded a TV news segment on this - airs at 7pm EST tonight. Parents and teachers want maths change - so that maths can be relevant, engaging & involve creativity & critical thinking. From the Gates Foundation usprogram.gatesfoundation.org/-/media/files/…

Big shout out to the grade 5 team at @ACSEgham as they prepare for their upcoming PYPX! Can’t wait to see the amazing work the students have done! #inquiry #PYPx #pypchat #lifelonglearning #ibpyp #PYPX2023 #studentagency #inquirymindset

Sketch of the week: the Inquiry Teacher. Consider this...the most important work we can do to support students in inquiry, is the work on ourselves.