Prompting questions: after watching these, what do you think 'teacher inquiry' meant to McCourt? What could you take from his sense of teacher inquiry for your own inquiry process?
After watching the videos and hearing some additional anecdotes about how he adapted his teaching based on his students, I think Frank saw his students as teachers for his own practice. He listened to them and got to know them, and his own teaching was inspired by their needs and interests. Had he come into the field thinking he knew everything, he may not have been able to be as flexible and adaptable as he was, and wouldn't have built the connections with the students in the same way.
In my own inquiry process, I hope I never lose my voracious curiousity. I don't know what Frank's internal motivations were, but I hope we share the same path of always striving to be better than before. I hope that I'm always willing to be wrong, and to learn something along the way.
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