Week Four - Expanding on Understanding Inquiry
Video References
John Hattie, in his video on Inquiry-Based learning Kath Murdoch’s video, The Power of uuum. Here's the tweet from the teacher in my school. He is our innovation and inquiry teacher, so we spend a lot of time discussing both. I also found a few more interesting people to follow on Twitter though this process.
This is the tweet I sent out on Twitter. Unfortunately I did not have any responses. I learned that it is imperative to spend time building your PLN if you want to be able to get responses back!
This is the response I received by from Kath Murdoch. I didn't know if she would actually respond when I emailed but was really pleased she did. Her Ted talk, series of videos on inquiry and books are fantastic. I look forward to putting her ideas into action.
The response back from the lead inquiry teacher was not overly helpful. She felt I would be better to contact some of the other K teachers from our KLG (kindergarten learning group.) I have actually already done that with not a lot of success.
I did really enjoy working with the literacy specialist from my school. We looked at the new curriculum and experimented with how to form essential inquiry questions based on the big ideas. I will talk more about that in my next post. I am excited to get to work on my mini inquiry lessons next week.
Mike Eyres
5/29/2016 05:37:34 pm
I love the wonder wall. You are developing a hunch and entering the Spirals of Inquiry model! So cool! I am currently working with my students on Learning in Depth, LiD, by Kieren Egan from SFU. My students are finding out all sorts of answers...eventually that the answers never stop coming. The K/1 class across the hallway is presenting LiD learnings on the same day as my class, June 10th in the morning. I can video tape some of the presentations to show you how it fits into ongoing inquiry practice.
Lindsey
5/30/2016 03:41:33 pm
I forgot about the Spirals of Inquiry Book. I read it a few years ago. I have had many chats with teachers about their opinions on LiD. I have heard mixed reviews on using it. My thought is that making a student choose a topic they have no real spark or interest in and then making them inquire about it for 7 years seems a little counter-intuitive to what real inquiry is. My personal preference would be to see a student inquire about something they are passionately interested in. That being said, I would love to see a video of your school's K/1 class in action.
Felipe Sequeira
5/31/2016 11:19:47 pm
I hear you about inquiry in the younger grades. There are so many variables to consider that somewhat diminish in the older grades. Ability to read and write hinders independent inquiry as does the limited attention span to focus on one idea or question. K/1 students will often have multiple inquiry questions a day. I think that guided inquiry is what is most likely to happen in these classes. As Mike mentioned, a wonder wall is a good way to get the questions out there. Kath's method of choosing certain wonders each cycle would be a good way to introduce inquiry as a class. However, I think they would have to have multiple practices at it before they were able to do small group inquiries.That's just my experience. Comments are closed.
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