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Teacher Inquiry Program


What is Teacher Inquiry?

  • The BCTF Teacher Inquiry Program provides teachers, through the process of collaboration and classroom action research, a framework for ongoing professional inquiry and growth—thus influencing the basis upon which changes occur in teaching.  It is to promote continuous professional development in teaching practices by fostering a structured process of investigation and reflection.  Inquiry-based processes enable teachers to rediscover and reflect upon the social significance of their teaching in relation to their own values and personal sense of meaning. It is through this approach to inquiry into teaching that new educational knowledge, based on the experiences of practitioners, will most likely emerge for the benefit of teachers and others.
  • It includes a process that involves professional learning communities where participants decide on the focus of the inquiry.
  • The Teacher Inquiry Program (TIP) involves reflection of lived experiences, open-ended questions, collaboration of colleagues, professional conversations, extending understanding of practice through critical discourse, planning and initiating action for change, and distributed leadership.
  • BCTF facilitators help guide participants through the inquiry process in six half-day sessions: Introduction to the teacher inquiry process, Teachers develop and refine an inquiry question, Teachers carry out the inquiry question (research / data collection), Teachers synthesize and analyze the findings of the inquiry project, Teachers plan, prepare, and finalize the project, Teachers share / present and celebrate the inquiry project process. 

TIP Information

These short videos provide further information about TIP from facilitators and teacher participants who are sharing their experiences of how inquiry is helping and transforming teaching practice and professional development.

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