Rich Contexts Inquiry Team

Throughout Term One I worked collaboratively as a Member of the Rich tasks with a focus on
looking at rich tasks with an EFS and Maths focus. There are 4 members of staff on this team from different levels throughout the school. These meetings have provided us with the opportunity to find and read professional readings and to clarify our understanding of what a rich task is.
As we discussed our understanding and developed new knowledge we decided to rename rich tasks as RICH CONCEPTS,.
We also realized that we are already providing many rich concepts for learning and to capitalist on them we need to be thinking about the concept and ensuring we have several of the criteria present to enable the children to run with the concept from their current understanding as well as ensuring they can take the concept in a direction they find motivating.
See notes from Minutes of Meetings


We developed a presentation to share our new understanding and knowledge with the staff
Link to view our presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nq3EefYbq9qjx-3npeffgJD3nJOH6NFYFTYVK8dwL0M/edit#slide=id.p



It has been good to make connections from Rich Concepts to Key Competencies, Eskdale School profile, 21st learning and  Learning dispositions.

This is an area we hope to further develop our understanding.

The challenge is going to be to narrow our focus to develop a usable dynamic matrix without compromising on key attributes