Contribution of Teacher Inquiry Topics to my Communities of Practice

Step 1 (Descriptive):

Identify Two Inquiry Topics

The first topic I have identified is Carol Dweck’s work on ‘Developing a Growth Mindset’, this was
one of the topics covered in the leadership section of the course. The second topic is ‘Implementing
Technology Innovation in the Classroom” ie using SAMR and TPack, this is also a leadership
section of the course.

My Communities of Practice

After reading about communities of practice I find that I am involved in more than one already.

Step 2 (Comparative):

Step 3 (Critical reflection):

I’m really lucky in the fact that my school staff, Trekkers syndicate and Uru Manuka group all share
the same ideas on both mindset and the Implementation of Technology Innovation in the Classroom.
We have all taken part in Professional Learning about these areas. This makes it easy to have it
as a focus for inquiry. The cluster PLG (Professional Learning Group) focusing on feedback links
directly into Growth Mindset so I have a CoP that is being set up to help with this.  By doing further
research into one of these areas I will have greater knowledge to share with all the communities
that I am a part of.

The key thing is I have found two areas that I am interested in researching further.  The hard thing
will be to choose which one I want to look at first.