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When students own the learning they are motivated…
“When can we do our mapping learning, Ms J?” Various students have asked me this question since our mapping inquiry time on Friday and Monday. I love how excited many of them are. You can read about my thinking about … Continue reading
Provoking Curiosity
It takes a while before the children think of putting paper into this old typewriter to make it do something… They wonder if the flat disks beside it are the films for the old camera! They’re exploring a mini museum … Continue reading
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Tagged curiosity, Inquiry Based Learning, learning history, provocations, relinquishing control
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A Personal Journey into Inquiry
Inquire Within has become like a steamy cup of my favorite cup of Earl Grey tea and really has brought me along professionally as an inquiry teacher. I feel like I’m new to the inquiry model. Years ago, I taught … Continue reading
Environment for inquiry…
I shared this beautiful video with a team of teachers before a planning session this morning. I wanted to encourage them to think about ‘letting go’, students taking more responsibility for the learning and the teacher’s role in making this … Continue reading
Assessment: Who’s in Control?
What if students were able to choose when and what they wanted to be assessed on? That simple question was posed by colleague, recently to me in a staffroom chat. It quickly exploded into an hour long discussion, that resulted … Continue reading
Just Get Out of the Way Mrs. Ripp
So yesterday I finally did it…I started my first inquiry based project with strange new kids. You see, I moved to 5th grade and my incredible team and I decided that we would shuffle our kids for math and a … Continue reading
Above And Beyond
What do you think of this video shared on Twitter today by @neilringrose? I started writing the post to accompany it, then changed my mind. Suffice to say, it encapsulates all of my schools learning principles. We learn in different ways, … Continue reading
The language of misconceptions – a provocation for inquiry?
We are constantly reassured that inquiry is a natural phenomenon, part of the way we learn as humans… the intuitive art of learning to question through wonderment and curiosity. Yet what do we do when inquiry feels imposed? Does not … Continue reading
Letting go…
Inquiry starts with the teacher relinquishing some control, stepping back and allowing students to take more responsibility for their own learning. It’s a difficult one for most teachers. Veterans are used to having control and often find it hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged inquiry, relinquishing control, student centered learning, student choice
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