Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Part of your application for the TLIF fund requires an action plan. The following material may help you with this process.
There is no ‘right’ way to present an Action Plan, but the 2017 Proposal template suggests that you include headings
such as:
Example One
Hillview Primary School, a Y1-8 school, is part of a Community of Learning ǀ Kāhui Ako of five schools. The agreed
focus for the Community of Learning ǀ Kāhui Ako is improving declining student engagement from Y6. Teachers across
the Community of Learning ǀ Kāhui Ako reported that students were showing less interest in their work, and they were
not making the same progress as earlier in their schooling. The teachers wanted to change this situation. Three of the
schools within the Community of Learning ǀ Kāhui Ako decided to apply for Teacher-led Innovation Fund (TLIF)
grants to investigate different approaches to strengthening student engagement. The three schools engaged an external
partner with experience in teacher-led inquiry to help them prepare their applications. Her role in each school was to
In her work with Hillview School, the inquiry expert suggested that the school use the NZCER “Me and my School”
survey for all classes from Year 5-Year 8 to check teachers’ perceptions that as students moved further up the school
they became less engaged, and to provide “before”(baseline) data. This is an online tool that NZCER administers and
analyses. The results showed that the teachers’ perceptions were correct. Before the proposal was prepared the
external expert and the teachers looked closely at what the results from the “Me and My School” survey were telling
them. They discussed the findings that increasing percentages of students reported that they were bored in class, while
decreasing numbers agreed that they usually did their best work. The teachers decided that their inquiry would help
them to understand why this was happening and then do things differently so that students became more engaged.
They hypothesised that by offering students more choice about what and how they learnt they could raise their
engagement. Their inquiry expert provided readings on engagement and student choice, and links to relevant websites
to build teachers’ understandings. They decided that the project would run for 6 terms, beginning with gathering
additional information on the opportunities that students had to make choices about their work, followed by a sequence
of changes in teacher practice based on what the data were telling them.
Timeline Actions: what will Desired What data will we collect How we will Who is responsible? Costs (e.g. support from
we do? outputs/outcomes and when? interpret what inquiry expert, teacher
(short, medium, the data means? release time,
long term) assessment/analysis …)
Term Two Preparation A bank of student Student survey No 1 Teachers will Teachers. Three hour release time
2017 Gather data on inquiry topics. (student interests ) analyse their each teacher (x5) for
students’ interests. completed : own class’s data. reading, analysis and
Week 3. reporting to rest of team.
Relieving costs for 3.0 days
= $900
Discuss with An overview of Teachers review own Prepare table Teachers
colleagues the current teacher- teaching plans. identifying
opportunities that directed and proportion of
students currently student- directed lessons that
have to exercise teaching practices provide for
choice in their within the inquiry student choice.
learning. team.
Teachers each Greater teacher Teachers keep brief notes Group discussion Each teacher. Teacher release costs , 1.5
observe in a awareness of ways on the choices they gave and sharing of days= $500
colleague’s to provide more students and anecdotal ideas on Teacher
classroom, to student choice in a evidence on student only day.
identify chosen curriculum responses to these
opportunities for area. changes.
student choice to
share with others.
Term 4 2017 Implementing All students will Revisit student survey No Expert and lead Expert and lead teachers. Two hours release time for
Teachers will engage in student- 1. teachers: analysis and report each
implement student led learning. analyse survey 1 teacher (x5). Teacher
led lesson plans. Interview priority and 2 data; release costs for 2.5 days =
learners about their reviewed by $700
engagement. team.
Teacher
reflection data
collated by lead
teacher and
discussed by
team.
Whānau hui –
present last inquiry
and interests;
gather feedback.
Term 3 2018 Evaluate Teachers are using Teacher reflections, Teachers analyse Teachers and expert. 3 days teacher release =
Teachers will student-led observations. together; lead $900
evaluate student practices. teacher collates
inquiry in T1 and 2.
Me and My
school, NZCER
analysis.
The English teacher looked closely at the data and realised that the target group of boys had a history of taking
Whakairo (Carving) and were also enrolled in visual art, and graphics. She decided to invite the Graphics, Whakairo,
and Arts teachers to develop an inquiry with the focus on raising Māori student achievement. The teachers
hypothesised that if they could immerse school learning experiences in the boys’ cultural knowledge, and use student
strengths in Whakairo and Arts as authentic contexts for teaching English this would raise achievement in Graphics and
English. Their aim was to enable the boys to attain level 3 and gain entrance into tertiary education.
The teacher team called the intervention, Te Toi; a collaboration between English and the Arts. The aim was to draw
on NCEA standards and design an integrated curriculum and learning activities for English, Graphics, Whakairo, Visual
Art and Practical Art. This allowed integrated learning and achievement of NCEA credits across the 5 subjects.
Timeline Actions: what will Desired What data will we collect How we will interpret Who is responsible? Costs (e.g. support from inquiry
we do? outputs/outcomes and when? what the data means? expert, teacher release time,
(short, medium, long assessment/analysis …)
term)
Term Preparation One day release time each
One teacher (x5). Relieving costs for
2017 Teachers will set A planned integrated Teacher meetings notes Teachers’ reflection Teachers 5.0 days = $1500
achievement tasks teaching approach
across the subjects. across Arts and Standards and activities
Students included English. produced.
in planning. Baseline data collected Students’ credits Inquiry expertise 4 days over
within first month of tracked, submission of Lead Teacher the term =$4000
Inquiry will be term. work. Subject teachers track
framed with Māori Student voice collected submission of work
arts expert. within first two weeks of
term.
Term 2 Innovation Fortnightly 1-hour meeting
2017 Teachers Students have Focus of students’ Lead teacher will track Teachers
implement selected a person immersed learning Student learning plans. Expert’s costs $1000 (for work
collaborative units. from their whānau, context collected and Lead teacher with teachers and for the PD
Students to select hapū, Iwi who will be shared by English Arts expertise will be afternoon x2)
focus of an inspiration/focus teacher. used in planning.
arts/graphic and for their work. External arts expert
context for English Teacher release 2 afternoons
with teachers. +$1500
Target students A complete set of Student achievement Data collated, and Lead Teacher and Lead teacher 1 day per
continued to be student achievement data. achievement data by teachers observation, analysis, feedback
tracked. data from tracking. lead teacher and =$1500
discussed by team.
Whānau hui with Whānau hui held to Whānau hui notes. Lead teacher whānau Students, whānau and Whānau hui costs= $250 for
students. present student work hui teachers food
to whanau Cost of cultural/arts expert to
Teachers will plan Students and whānau Student and whānau Voice used to inform Lead teachers and
2018 integrated voice from previous voice to be used from last planning – will be expertise
programme based term will be used to term hui. analysed by teachers.
on feedback from inform 2018 action
data. plan. Expert support with data
analysis and milestone reporting
2 days= $2000
Analysis end of year Students will achieve End of year data Teachers analyse own Leader teacher to track
data to look for set standards. collected. data. Priority students’ priority student success
impact on student analysis by lead
outcomes. teacher.
Final report writing. All of project data. Lead teacher and expert
Lead teacher and expert Data for end of year
to collate. report – teacher
The action plan was designed to run two cycles of inquiry over one year across eight schools. The teachers all agreed
that they needed to start with a whānau hui to fully understand the needs of whānau and how they interpreted the key
values that underpinned the relationships across the cluster. It was not possible to come up with an action plan that fully
identified the approaches that each team member would explore, as the initial scoping would identify different
approaches for each setting. What follows is the general process that the team scoped for their two stages inquiry.
Cycle 1 Inquiry Professional Learning across schools Lead Kaiako Reports form PLD Lead Kaiako time 4 1/2 days $5600
Implementing inquiry – – identified in Inquiry Cycle 1 pan Expertise as identified from session over period of inquiry (data,
professional expertise inquiry question – where maintenance, admin)
where identified in inquiry possible join schools together Google docs
plan Kaiako school release time $8400
across 8 schools to work
with experts to implement
December Cycle 1 end - Data Monitor shifts in teacher practice Reponses to PLD Analysed into 8 school Kaiako checkpoint, review,
2017 Checkpoint December Monitor outcomes for students Teacher Inquiry results case inquiry stories report writing and
2016 Results from target students preparation for Cycle 2 $2800
Evaluate Cycle 1 inquiry
1 day kaiako release $1200
Term1 Begin inquiry Cycle 2 Plan cycle two inquiry based on School baseline data (etap) Baseline for Cycle 2 Hui - review and set cycle $2800
2018 Wānanga kaiako from outcome of cycle one. Teacher feedback from school Inquiry Expertise $1200
each school School case inquiry story Results will be
Set Cycle 2 Inquiry Plan analysed by school in
school cycle 2 inquiry
plan
Term 2 Interventions in place All schools will have professional Feedback from PL School PL feedback Lead Kaiako admin/mentor $2800
2018 Professional learning by learning and expertise as identified Teacher feedback and form to be submitted release day
identified expertise (staff in their cycle 2 plan commentary on how applied in to lead team
meeting, coaching, practice Kaiako release days for $8400
mentoring, visit to other Across school PLD - inquiry to work with
schools) shared where expertise across schools
possible. $24000
Expertise as identified in
cycle 2 plan (To each
school) budgeted at $1000 $4000
per day 3 days each school
+ travel provision $4000 $1000
(north island expertise)
Accommodation/meals
$200 per night 5 nights
Data Collection and To understand impact of cycle 2 Lead Kaiako Data Collection June - July 2017 Data collection across $2800
Video diaries and digital Record a digital story to capture the Capturing and editing video $1000
storying of whole of inquiry across the 8 schools content into digital story
project across the cycles