DAY+3

Site visits - when do findings become commendations, recommendations, matters to be addressed?
 * We started the morning with:**
 * SESSION 9**

The verification visit - exit interview


 * SESSION 10**

Using what you learnt about practices that need to be in place at the time of authorization and the requirements for authorization, read the Application for Authorization critically and prepare a set of questions you would ask one of these: parents, teachers, librarian, pedagogical leadership team. Prepare role play.

ROLE PLAY

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 * SESSION 11**
 * New workshop achitecture......**download this pdf document from



School code: 000044 Username: MIAMI Password: 62177 REMEMBER THIS ACCESS WILL EXPIRE ON 14 NOVEMBER
 * Workshop leader resource centre **

In groups of 4, appoint an observer who will write down what happens (conversations and actions) as the group constructs the tallest free standing structure possible using only newspaper and masking tape. Can you organize what happened during the activity into stages/steps in a graph? The inquiry cycle - Kathy Short, John Dewey, Kath Murdoch.........
 * Inquiry**

What makes a good POI ? What do we look for when we analyze a POI? How do you develop a POI? What advice would you give to a school that has to develop its POI?
 * SESSION 12**
 * The programme of inquiry**


 * Number of units
 * Was it developed collaboratively
 * Central ideas: one statement, transdisciplinary, neutral voice, globally significant
 * All aspects of the TT included vertically
 * Not more than 3 key concepts per unit, but all of them in a year
 * Related concepts are identified
 * 3 or 4 lines of inquiry – they are statements
 * Includes all Science and Social Studies
 * Each unit is explored through two or three disciplines which have been identified

Some more readings........



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