2_Questions+for+Helen+Timperley



**Research (general)**

 * ====Is there are priority to the the 10 principles? Are there any more important than the others? ====

**Active leaders/ leadership**

 * ==== How do we get **Principals** to engage in and support everything related to Professional Learning relevant or implemented in their schools? ====
 * ====What is the relationship between experts and school educational leaders with respect to Professional Learning and what is the correlation between school leader involvement (9) and sustaining/maintaining momentum (10)? ====
 * ====What strategies could be suggested for engaging and involving Principals?  ====
 * ====What processes need to be in place to support schools with limited leadership and curriculum expertise to create a low risk environment for teachers to identify / voice their professional learning needs to improve teacher practice and student outcomes?  ====
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**Focusing on valued student outcomes**
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 * ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How do we proceed when our NT DEET "valued outcomes" don't align with those of teachers and/or students and their families/communities? ====
 * ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How do we as a system ensure that we have chosen as priorities / professional learning experiences that focus on the links between particular teaching activities and valued student outcomes? ====
 * ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">Who choses 'valued' student outcomes and how do we ensure that the values of our diverse student cultures are valued in this selection and implementation process? and at the same time other "valued outcomes" are covered? ====
 * ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How do we know that we are 'covering' the whole learner outcomes ? ====
 * ====<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">Who is making the judgment about what are valued outcomes? ====
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<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">**Planning for cyclical professional learning**
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 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">What approach is required or recommended for Professional Learning that is based on theory and practices that are not congruent with teachers' current theories and practices?
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"> The development/ embedding of knowledge and skills requires time to practice, critical feedback and reflection, how is this built into the professional learning cycle given resource/ time constraint?
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How do we plan for cyclical professional learning when there is so much content to cover?
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">What are some ways of embedding powerful reflective practices to enable teachers to develop 'self-regulatory inquiry skills' (10)? <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How can we maintain the momentum and develop self regulatory skills in schools when we have transistory teachers and students? <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,23,255)">How can we encourage the development of self regulated inquiry with people we work with in our PL activities and program- anecdotes, examples, suggestions, guide to action?

**Reframing teachers' social constructions of students**

 * How do we ensure in our system in NT here where we have high percentage students (48% indigenous) with worldviews different those held in the education 'mainstream' that all worldviews are valued?
 * How can we raise expectations of their marginalised students' learning in systems that have entrenched a deficit model?
 * Could you talk about the importance of Maori languages/ first language in your research?
 * Questions from some staff working in multilingual cross cultural contexts - very remote non-English speaking communities. In terms of professional learning design and development what research evidence in your experience would assist us?