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The Implementation of Enquiry Learning in Integrated Curriculum through questioning. An action learning project. Content. Background Capacity Building Preparatory stage Implementation in classroom learning and teaching. Why build capacity?.
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The Implementation of Enquiry Learning in Integrated Curriculum through questioning An action learning project
Content • Background • Capacity Building • Preparatory stage • Implementation in classroom learning and teaching
S1 Liberal StudiesPreparation of curriculum framework & resource materials
A capacity building Plan –what is capacity? Can I ask a question? Socrates
“Learning Teams” • Shared values & goals • Collective learning & application of learning • Supportive conditions • Sharing personal practices
Roles of the leader in this plan • Provide opportunities for staff to develop personal understanding; • Form Learning Teams as the core of continuous improvement (professional trust, sharing for mutual gain, and collaboration but not competition) • Promote reflection on practice by staff (pairs as critical friends) • Think and act in an authentic manner(you as a person and leader)
“Routine is the death of consciousness” • If we simply present the teacher with pre-packaged, finished lesson plans, designed by the critical thinking of someone else, someone who used a process that is not clearly understood by the teacher, then a major opportunity for the teacher to develop her own critical thinking skills, insights, and motivations will have been lost. Richard Paul, 1995, p.340
Source: Gough, N. (1992) Blueprints for Greening Schools, Gould League, Melbourne, p.90.
A Seven Stage Model of Enquiry Learning
Seven Stage Model of Enquiry Learning Tuning in Deciding directions Preparing to find out Finding out Sorting out Drawing conclusions Considering social action
What is the most popular question raised by students in Hong Kong? Can I ask a question? Socrates
What is the most popular question raised by teachers in Hong Kong? Can I ask a question? Socrates
Do you understand? Are you listening?
Teachers: generators of questions & answers of their own
Questioning Tools • Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking • Level 1: knowledge • Level 2: Comprehension • Level 3: Application • Level 4: Analysis • Level 5: Synthesis • Level 6: Evaluation
Questioning Tools • Socratic Questioning
Elements of Reasoning • All reasoning has a purpose; All reasoning is an attempt to figure something out, to settle some question, to solve some problem. • All reasoning is based on assumptions; All reasoning is done from some pointofview; All reasoning is based on data, information, and evidence. • All reasoning is expressed through, and shaped by, concepts and ideas; All reasoning contains inferences by which we draw conclusions and give meaning to data. • All reasoning leads somewhere, has implications and consequences.
For exploring ideas in depth & breadth • Select a question / issue of interest. • Produce a central statement. • Clarify the statement and its relationship to the question / issue. • List & examine support, reasons, evidence, & assumptions related to the central statement. • Explore the origin / source of the statement. • Develop & critically examine the implications & consequences of the statement. • Seek & fairly examine conflicting views.
Can we divide Socratic questions into several types – A taxonomy of Socratic questions? Can I ask a question? Socrates
Match the seven stage model of enquiry learning with the Socratic questioning model Can Socratic questioning facilitate enquiry learning?
Forum Theatre A scenario of teacher-student conflict Whose fault is it?
Plan the significant questionsthat providestructure and directionto the lesson.
Is it perfect? Can I ask a question? Socrates
Using Socratic Dialogue in Class • Limitations • Time; Class size; Content delivery is slow • Can go in unproductive directions • Strengths • Clarifies, deepens, strengthens understanding • Engages and Elucidates students’ thinking • On the spot! • Generates ‘After Burn’ – reflection
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