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Practitioner Enquiry Tip of the Week: time to turn the volume down. I have spoken about how I think practitioner enquiry as professional learning is something that we can turn up the volume on, or turn it down. The end of term means turning it down /1
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Practitioner enquiry should be ongoing in practice, we should be constantly asking questions about what's worked or not, striving to better understand, to improve outcomes. Most answers come within normal practice but you should be able to talk about choices. It's our baseline /2
But on important questions, to address problems with particularly useful answers (for you, kids, school) we might turn the volume up. This turning up might include larger sample sizes, more evidence, greater academic codification, wider sharing, more formal write up etc. /3
You might turn up all of those things or just 1 or 2, depending on intent, audience, how useful it is and how it connects to other discourses, but turning up is not required all the time. That baseline enquiry as stance is maintained, project is for special questions /4
When life's tough or you have other commitments (nativity, exams, report writing, a big chunk of life thrown at you), turning down is sensible thing to do. Organise moments when you turn volume up for when you've space or you a question that's particularly relevant/bugging you /5
So with the end of term, reflect on questions you've answered, start to have half a thought to what might be useful next term, but turn volume down. It will wait. There are no prizes for size in practitioner enquiry and seeing connections into what you've learned is enough /6
Have a lovely break. Switch off. Stay safe and be kind. #PractitionerEnquiryTotW will return in 2021
