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Elementary School Coffee Morning Tuesday 14 February 2012 Inquiry Learning at ISM

Elementary School Coffee Morning Tuesday 14 February 2012 Inquiry Learning at ISM. Inquiry Learning at ISM What is it? What does it look like? How does it prepare my child for academic success? How does it prepare my child for the future?. Inquiry strategies ~ Making our thinking visible

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Elementary School Coffee Morning Tuesday 14 February 2012 Inquiry Learning at ISM

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  1. Elementary School Coffee Morning Tuesday 14 February 2012 Inquiry Learning at ISM

  2. Inquiry Learning at ISM • What is it? • What does it look like? • How does it prepare my child for academic success? • How does it prepare my child for the future?

  3. Inquiry strategies ~ Making our thinking visible Use the Chris Van Allsburg image to create a Y chart. Think of your Y chart as an anticipatory strategy for understanding how to make your thinking visible. See Wonder Think

  4. Inquiry as an approach Why inquiry? Inquiry provides a balance of the intellectual, the social and the personal – the combination which makes us human. If inquiry is our stance …

  5. Inquiry as an approach Why inquiry? Because this is how people learn Inquiry acts provide a window to students’ thinking What are they making sense of? How are they doing it? How are they using others to do it?

  6. What does it look like? • Voice and choiceWhose classroom is it? • Big pictureConceptual congruence • Research and tension • Authentic and purposeful

  7. Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Process 1. Tuning in – brainstorming, mind-mapping, think-pair-share … 2. Finding out – field trips, experiments, interviews, books, websites 3. Sorting out – processing and representing, developing skills … 4. Going further – extend and challenge, projects, expert (jigsaw) groups … 5. Drawing conclusions – assess and demonstrate student progress, develop metacognitive abilities … 6. Taking action – audits, advertising, local newspaper, letters, global links, blogs, action plan … 7. Reflecting – conversation counters, learning logs, fishbowl conversation, print walk …

  8. ‘Literacy will develop best … not with boring worksheets and sterile reading programs, but with reading and writing experiences that give students a chance to learn about all aspects of the world, from science to history to social relationships.’ The Curriculum Superhighway ~ Thomas Armstrong

  9. Inquiry in the Early Years • Inquiring into how to read and how to write … • Inquiring into number, place value, fractions…

  10. Write a statement on a sticky note identifying what helps and/or hinders your learning? • Choose one from table • Write on A3 paper • Cut up sentence

  11. How does it prepare my child for academic success? “The greatest enemy of understanding is COVERAGE. If we try to cover everything, we will understand nothing. But if we look at topics and concepts regularly and deeply from many perspectives and angles we can gradually become experts, we can gradually learn to understand.” ~ Grant Wiggins: Understanding By Design.

  12. Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test scores (November 2011) Green = ISM Blue = East Asia Association of Overseas Schools Yellow = All Association of Overseas Schools Red = All International Schools

  13. How does it prepare my child for the future? • Learning to learn • Transdisciplinary skills and dispositions

  14. How do we support children in making their thinking visible? Teachers: • Use Graphic organizers • Emphasize the process (how the learning is taking place) and the content (what is being learned) • Use transferable strategies across different contexts • Involve students in some of the decisions to be made • Provoke curiosity – how does this connect to the kids? – what can we connect this learning to? • Provide opportunities for children for play and exploration time, e.g. with Math manipulatives, PE equipment, musical instruments, books. • Use less teacher talk, and fewer ‘hands up’ conversations • Build reflection time into all lessons

  15. International-mindedness “Children educated for tomorrow’s world must be equipped with the habits of mind that allow them to act in meaningful ways, whether globally or locally. It is important to understand the ‘other’s point of view’ as it is to understand one’s own. When we learn to view our world not as ‘us and them’ but as ‘us and us’ we will come closer to finding fair and just solutions to the issues facing humanity. An education that promotes international-mindedness will provide young people with the skills, knowledge and values to confront these challenges and make meaningful contributions to society.” ~ Dr. Irene Davy. Director, Sunnybrook School, Toronto.

  16. Inquiry in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akk5EvTMGKo

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