Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
1. Conduct an inquiry that enhances student
learning and success.

• Does your inquiry focus on and strengthen what is
  valuable and meaningful for student learning and
  success?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
2. Ask questions that matter.

• Do your questions focus on issues related to
  student learning and success that you, students,
  and others truly care about?
• Do your questions lead to deeper understanding
  about valued and meaningful issues?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
3. Create a safe, hospitable, engaging
environment.

• Does your inquiry design help to create a
  trusting environment where people with differing
  perspectives feel physically and emotionally
  safe?
• Is your inquiry designed to include familiar as
  well as new ideas and events?
• Is your inquiry designed to be conducted at a
  pace that is reasonable for all involved? Are the
  roles/responsibilities reasonable for all
  involved?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
4. Encourage and appreciate each persons unique
contribution.

• Does your inquiry plan provide a means for
  everyone to contribute in ways that allow for
  each persons uniqueness and specific
  circumstances?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
5. Build relationships that rejuvenate
professional practice.

• Does your inquiry plan provide a means to build
  relationships within the CLIP and with others in
  order to generate and spread creative ideas?
• Does your inquiry plan provide a means to
  encourage renewal and innovation in learning and
  practice to keep pace with changing social
  conditions, knowledge, and student populations?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
6. Create authentic, open-minded dialogue that
brings out diverse perspectives.

• Does your inquiry plan allow for the unexpected?
  Does it allow for a diversity of participants and
  points of view to be heard?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
7. Engage in individual and collective
reflection.

• Does your inquiry plan provide for individual and
  collective reflective listening, observing, and
  thinking as a way to evoke deep insights and see
  emerging patterns and connections?

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Reflection Questions Concerning Design Decisions
8. Generate sustained, inquiry-based practice.

• Does your inquiry plan attend to relationships,
  logical thinking, and the will to act in ways
  that will generate meaningful, ongoing
  professional practice to benefit students?