Learning Through Inquiry: A workshop by Kathy Short.

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Learning Through Inquiry: A workshop by Kathy Short

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Learning Through Inquiry:

A workshop by Kathy

Short

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International Literature

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Kathy’s Inquiry Cycle

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Literature Personal

Inquiry

*Parents can help with this as expert readers!

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What did we take away???

stance

Units are not just ‘Units of Inquiry’; inquiry is a stance

Big idea – conceptual, essence of the unit. Topics are used as a vehicle for developing conceptual understanding.

Planner is a prediction of possibilities

Connections – personal, conceptual and explicit

Summative assessment should focus on concept and can be simple and informal