This document discusses using teaching as inquiry to create an e-learning action plan. It provides guidance on developing an action plan with stages for focusing inquiry, teaching inquiry, teaching and learning, and learning inquiry. The plan should focus on improving student outcomes and competencies through the integration of ICT strategies. Tips are provided like integrating initiatives, allowing curriculum-based groups, and providing support based on plans. Templates and resources are available online to help teachers create their own personalized e-learning action plans.

1. Leading Meaningful (and Manageable) Change
Using teaching as inquiry to create an
e-learning action plan
Claire Amos – Deputy Principal
Hobsonville Point Secondary School
VLN: http://www.vln.school.nz/pg/groups/49720/epsom-girls-grammar-school-ict-pd/
Email: claire@hobsonvillepoint.school.nz
Twitter: @claireamosnz
Part One: E-learning and BYOD at EGGS 2011 to 2012
Part Two: Creating your e-learning action plan

2. ICT PD 2011

3. Transitioning from 2010 to 2011
Overarching Programme Goals stayed the
same.
To improve student engagement through the
integration of ICT strategies to enhance:
(a) student centred learning
(b) strong learning relationships between
teachers, students and caregivers

4. ICTPD National Goals
1. Students to become successful digital citizens
2. Principals to lead the integration of e-learning in
their schools (strategic and operational)
3. Teachers to integrate e-learning effectively into
their practice creating an innovative and exciting
learning environment for all students
4. Family and whānau to actively participate in
their child’s learning
5. Sharing online professional reflections to inform
colleagues of the challenges and opportunities
afforded by e-learning

5. ICT tools and strategies that we will
focus on

6. Using Teaching as Inquiry
to produce an ‘E-learning Action Plan’

7. E-learning Action Plan
Inquiry Cycle Stage E-learning Action Plan Stage
Focusing Inquiry Selecting a group of students to focus on
and ‘Desired Student Learning
Outcome(s)’
(PLG Focus)
Teaching Inquiry ICT/e-learning strategies that will
support DSLO
Teaching and Learning Who/When (Timeline)
Learning Inquiry Evidence that you will collect to
measure shift in regards to DSLO

8. So how does this work?
• E-mentors are Learning Area based
• PLGs will have been formed within Learning
Areas to suit specific needs of Learning Area
• Learning Areas have produced an ‘E-learning
Action Plan’ led by LADs and e-mentors
• PLGs have developed specific ‘E-learning
Action Plans based on desired student
learning outcomes’

9. and…
• Several sessions a term have been allocated to
PLG sessions to work on their ‘E-learning
Action Plan’ and workshops offered (based on
needs highlighted in the action plans) to
support e-learning needs.

10. Transitioning from 2011 to 2012
Overarching Programme Goals stayed the
same.
To improve student engagement through the
integration of ICT strategies to enhance:
(a) student centred learning
(b) strong learning relationships between
teachers, students and caregivers

11. Transitioning from 2011 to 2012
Three ICT PD foci for 2012
1. Establishing online classroom environments on
Moodle for all classes
2. Encouraging student to bring and use ‘student
owned devices’
3. Completing another cycle of a Teaching as
Inquiry e-learning action plan with a greater
focus on effective pedagogy (to ensure we
continue to reflect and question the effect of
integrating e-learning and ICTs)

12. Student Outcomes to Effective Pedagogy
The focus will change:
• 2011 – Student Outcomes informed the ‘e-
learning action plan’
• 2012 – Effective Pedagogy/Key Competencies
will inform the ‘e-learning action plan’

13. E-learning Action Plan 2012
Inquiry Cycle Stage E-learning Action Plan Stage
Focusing Inquiry Selecting a group of students to focus on
and an area of ‘Thinking’ to focus on
(PLG Focus)
Teaching Inquiry Collaborative/Differentiated/ICT/e-
learning strategies that will support
development of ‘Thinking’
Teaching and Learning Who/When (Timeline)
Learning Inquiry Evidence that you will collect to
measure shift in regards to ‘Thinking’

14. Suggested timeline for 2012
Term One
Weeks 1-5 PD focus on Effective Pedagogy/Student Competencies
not IT
Weeks 6-10 PLGs formed and ‘E-learning Action Plans’ developed
Term Two
ICTPD Workshops and PLG time
Mid-year feedback gathered at end of Term 2
Term Three
ICTPD Workshops and PLG time
Term Four
Sharing and final feedback

15. Moodle, Google and Pedagogy
Do the following online actions and tools support these pedagogical foci?
Moodle Thinking Collaboration Differentiation
Adding document Yes No Yes
Adding a link Yes No Yes
Forums Absolutely Yes Yes
Wiki Yes Absolutely Yes
Google Apps Thinking Collaboration Differentiation
Docs Yes Absolutely Yes
Presentation Yes Absolutely Yes
Forms Yes Could do Yes
Sites Yes Absolutely Absolutely

16. Why this works!
• It is based on effective pedagogy as outlined in the
NZC
• It can be personalised to fit personal professional
needs
• It can be contextualised into any curriculum area
• It provides a plan of action with provides a structure
and a level of accountability
• It puts the focus on the student outcomes, not the
technology!

17. Tips
• Integrate all school initiatives into the one teaching as inquiry
cycle – rather than separating out into disparate topics
• Allow teachers to work in curriculum based professional
learning groups
• Provide a common template
• Provide a clear timeline for completing each part of the
inquiry
• Get them to publish and share their plans – this helps with the
accountability but also provides opportunities for identifying
needs and common foci.
• Offer technical and ICT skills PD based on their plans (consider
creating online tutorials to do this)

18. 21st Century Pedagogy
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/a-diagram-of-21st-century-pedagogy/

19. So where do we start?
In a way you need to conduct your own Teaching as Inquiry
project to design your Teaching as Inquiry school-specific model.
Inquiry Cycle Stage PLD Plan Stage
Focusing Inquiry
What is important (and therefore worth spending
time on), given where our students (and
teachers) are at?
Teaching Inquiry
What strategies (evidence-based) are most likely
to help my teachers learn this (Teaching as
Inquiry!)
Teaching and Learning How/when will you deliver this PLD?
Learning Inquiry
How will capture/measure the success of what
happened as a result of the PLD, and what are
the implications for future teaching?

20. Creating your own
e-learning action plan
Go to: http://www.claireamos.com/core-breakfasts
To access more info and templates you can use to create your own e-
learning action plan!
Things to consider:
• What are your school’s strategic goals?
• What are your department’s goals?
• What are your personal/professional goals?
These will determine what you will focus on in your focusing inquiry and
teaching and learning inquiry.