Inquiry Pedagogies_1

Inquiry Pedagogies_1

1. Student-Centred

   • Engages students in really rich and important learning
   • Helps students to understand the world in which they live
   • Helps students to understand the people with whom they live with
   • Provides them with life-long skills and concepts

2. Defined as the ways of teaching and learning

3. Notion of Learned Dependence

   • (Bateman, 2008, p.226)

4. Virtual School Bags

   • Teachers carry strategies and skills that enable them to engage students in their learning

5. Developing an Inquiry Curriculum

   • Teacher Thinking
     • Finding out student interests
     • Engaging Students with a hook
     • Also based on curriculum, school policy and the students in the class
   • Rationale
     • Why is it that I want to teach the unit?
     • Make particular claims & then support them with theoretical perspective
     • Statements of understanding for students/Core Learnings
     • List the context
     • Explicit links to theorists
     • Reference curriculum documents

6. Stages of an Inquiry Curriculum

   • Tuning In Phase
     • Activities to engage students in what the topic is about
     • Helps to find out what the students already know
   • Finding Out Phase
     • Going through research to find out information
     • Sorting out information
     • Presenting the information in a variety of ways
     • Make sense of what it is were finding out
   • Going Further Phase
     • Have students have developed skills to actually go through inquiry?
     • Are students able to develop the understandings and cohesive ideas and present their findings?
   • Making Connections
     • We want to connect!
     • Finding ways to get everyone to contribute knowledge
     • Knowledge Production in the classroom

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