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Author Archives: whatedsaid
Inquiry is the answer, what are the questions?
Inquiry is the answer, what are the questions? This quick task was assigned to a group of teachers at a recent workshop on inclusion, highlighting how a simple, open-ended provocation can provoke curiosity, allow access for learners with diverse learning needs … Continue reading
Before we close the door…
This blog came to life, six years ago, with an invitation to inquiry teachers to ‘inquire within’ if they were interested in sharing their reflections on inquiry learning in this collaborative space. At first there was interest and growth, but then … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Inquiry
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Letting go is hard to do…
Guest post by Art teacher, Elena Sacks… As most specialist PYP art teachers know, time is always of the essence. We need to cram in as many skills and techniques into the year as well as tying in with some … Continue reading
Adventure Time – An experiment in student driven learning
Most formal curricula have hundreds of outcomes. If you were to address them individually, you’d need to be at school for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for about 20 years… What if you relinquished control and let … Continue reading
An inquiry into our school…
Learning takes place through inquiry. Learning is most meaningful when the learners have choice in how they learn, as well as opportunities to wonder, explore, hypothesise and construct meaning for themselves. This is why we have chosen to structure our new … Continue reading
Inquiry into ‘Inquire Within’…
Since opening the door to Inquire Within just over four years ago, contributors have come and gone, enthusiasm has waxed and waned, there have been periods of abundance and periods of drought… Yet our 4,062 (plus!) readers are still ‘inquiring within’ … Continue reading
More on concept driven inquiry…
In a concept driven, inquiry based learning environment, we do NOT plan a series of activities to ensure coverage of the requirements of our national curriculum. Instead we spend our planning time reflecting collaboratively, exploring which conceptual lenses will produce the … Continue reading
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Tagged collaborative planning, concept driven learning, concept-based inquiry, geography, PYP key concepts
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A concept driven inquiry into history…
The inquiry Central Idea – ‘Investigating history helps us understand the present.‘ The teachers collaboratively develop a rubric for the desired conceptual understandings so that, with shared goals in mind, we can plan a couple of powerful provocations and then wait … Continue reading
This is how inquiry teachers teach…
Since Kath has posted her ‘How do Inquiry Teachers… teach?’ here at Inquire Within, I’ll post my response here too… Traditional pedagogy sees the teacher provide a set of instructions, make sure everyone ‘knows what to do’, explain everything and … Continue reading
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Tagged communities of practice, inquiry learning, inquiry teachers, professional learning
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Inquire Within 