Overview
This
MY PIC (Middle Years Professional Inquiry Cycle) website has been
designed as a tool to enhance teacher and student learning in the
area of literacy as part of the Literacy
for Life initiative.
The
inquiry evolved as teachers and teacher-librarians attempted to
define and create “independent readers” in their classroom(s).
Through a process of co-constructing criteria around the definition
of the “independent reader”, four criteria emerged.
Independent readers:
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Show a love of reading.
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Choose to read.
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Read a large volume.
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Demonstrate the skills and strategies of independent readers.
From
these criteria, two strands of professional learning emerged:
Strand
1: Love, Choose, Volume
Strand 2: Skills and Strategies
Teachers
then reflected on student learning and enrolled in the strand of
learning most pertinent to student achievement in their classroom.
The MY PIC website was designed as a professional development tool
to guide teachers through a professional inquiry into one question
within their chosen strand.
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