I happy to say that I have successfully convinced my entire staff to adopt a school-wide research model. At the year-end school growth plan meeting I asked my principal if I could take 20 mins to present a couple of models. Before presenting the models, I met with every teacher to discuss next year and quite a few of them wanted to work on research skills. By the time I was presenting the models about half of the staff was on board. I presented the Big6 model and the BCTLA inquiry model. We decided that we would like to adopt the BCTLA model since it’s based on BC IRPs and that the document is so well laid-out with all the PLOs for each step of the model. We took a few minutes to translate the key words into French and we were done!
In September, the hard part will begin… making sure that all the teachers are using the model and that the students understand what each step means. To ensure success, I plan on introducing the model myself and providing teachers with necessary support to follow-up in their classroom. Throughout the year I will go more in depth with each step to further develop their research skills. Hopefully everything will go as planned!
Wow, good for you!
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