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| 7A.1 Discussing Four Statements 7A.2 Practicing with a Friend 7A.3 Presenting the Studies 7A.4 Conclusion and Beginning |
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Step Seven - All Files  7R.1 Four Statement Discussion Sheet
7R.2 Teacher Self-Assessment Rubric
7R.3 Talking Points for Inquiry Presentations
7R.4 Response to Inquiry Presentations
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Conclusion and Beginning
Congratulations! You have presented your inquiry project findings to your small learning community and, in the process of conducting this inquiry, you have most likely learned a great deal about your own teaching.
For many teachers, this is just the first step in a life-long process of professional inquiry. You may wish to continue collecting evidence for your research question next year. You may wish to collect different evidence to answer that same question. Or perhaps one of the catalyzed questions that evolved from your original inquiry question has caught your imagination and you would like to study it further.
Although this process works best in a small learning community, it is not always feasible to gather a group of teachers to walk through each step. If you decide to continue an informal process of inquiry in your classroom, you will undoubtedly find many ways to share your work with others—staff development meetings, departmental meetings, collaborations between schools, and even informal discussions with your colleagues. The most important factors to your success are a commitment to collecting and weighing evidence from within your own classroom, a desire to improve your teaching practice for the benefit of your students, and the ability to share your work so that you receive feedback from multiple sources and are able to communicate your findings to others.
We hope that this process has been beneficial to you and your students. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments regarding the content of this site.
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