Inquiry Learning

EAAPA- 11 June 2009

Vaughan van Rensburg

21st- Century Challenge Integrate knowledge from multiple sources and media

Think critically

Collaborate

Learn how to learn

Information discerning

What ‘s Inquiry learning ?

“Inquiry is a systematic investigation or study into a worthy question, issue, problem or idea.”

www.galileo.org/inquiry-what.html

New research is more like shopping and cooking. We expect students to select and gather the choicest raw ingredients with great care and then cook their own meal.

No microwave research reports! No fast food!

No simple cut-and-paste.

The secret to great research is Great Questions . . . 

Jamie Mc Kenzie

Inquiry Learning and the revised NZ Curriculum

We have learnt from experience that too much curriculum is not

conducive to good learning

When developing your school based curriculum start with a basic central core of what you

see as being absolutely essential for you pupils.

There is, and will always be, huge pressure on

schools to keep adding to their curriculum

Revised NZ Curriculum

An Opportunity?

Managing Self

AttitudeUnderstandingSkills

Managing self is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self assessment.

Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently.

This is a complex mixture, students will not exhibit this competency in any consistent manner, their attitudes,

understandings and skills will change from day to day, context to context, and situation to situation.

Managing self is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self assessment.

Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently.

Managing self is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self assessment.

Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently

Managing self is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self assessment.

Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently

Student ownership

Knowledge is constructed

Scaffold learning

Guide on the side

Just in time skills

Why Inquiry Learning?

Pakuranga Heights SchoolHive of Learning Levels

1 Motivation, Exploring, Exposure Remembering Brainstorming Defining Immersion Saturation Availability of information

2

Understanding & Inventing the idea Thinking Understanding Setting goals Coming up with the idea Establishing the authentic task Mapping/sorting/synthesizing Thinking about the audience

Immersion

Fertile Question

3

Research & Relate to the idea Investigating Collecting Collating Making sense of the information Analyzing Comparing/graphing/contrasting Applying and designing

4

Creating the idea, Audience Presentation Building Constructing Designing Publishing Producing Presenting Displaying

5 Evaluate Judging the outcomes Assessing Evaluating the process

Communicate

Research/Sift/Sort/Analyse

Evaluate

Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Action Learning Model

Scaffolding is a temporary structure which provides help at specific points in the learning process.

It allows learners to complete a challenging task which they would not be able to accomplish without help.

Scaffolding is a structure.By giving students some structure when solving problems, it can ~

Provide them with clear step by step directions.Allows students to break a large task into more manageable steps.Can help students on task and focused.

What is Scaffolding?

Visual Scaffold

Levels of Scaffold

Shared Inquiry

Guided Inquiry

Independent Inquiry

Skill Teaching Questioning Note Taking Summarising Skimming Scanning Evaluating Communicating

Thinking Tools

Audience

Assessment

Death by assessment

What makes an effective inquiry experience?

build on their existing knowledge and skills

select topics of interest.

explore a variety of resources

communicating their findings.

share with real-world audiences.

be evaluated on both process and product.

evaluate themselves, their peers and their resources.

ICT & Inquiry• Research Tools

• Home/School Connection (LMS)

• Sifting Sorting Tools

• Communication Tools

Quality Inquiry Environments

Formulating a problem or a fertile question.

Searching through and collecting information to address the problem or question.

Making sense of the information, and

developing an understanding of, point

of view about, or 'answer' to question.