ways to learn through inquiry session1
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Ways to Learn Through
Inquiry session1
Guiding children to Deeper understanding
JO FAHEYIBO 2012
Inquiry …If inquiry is a natural part of how children learn outside
school, then what does it look like in school settings?
Team discussionPlease, discuss first and share
a sample of Inquiry process which you had experienced
with your children. 5 min
How does Inquiry SOUND ?
Please, share ONE sample from each group
Do you know…..Paradoxically, although educators may recognize that children can be inquiring even if they don’t ask questions (like children in the sandpit who didn’t like the water disappearing), it is easier to recognize questions as inquiry.
Inquiry as a Language acts
Perhaps, because questions are easier to identify, researchers in the past have focused on questions. In so doing, however, they may have mistaken questions for genuie inquiry and overlooked more tentative and exploratory inquiries.
How could we broaden our view of Inquiry?
- from the predominant one of children asking questions?In 1999 Judith Wells Lindfors published her book Children’s Inquiry: Using Language to make sense of the World.
“Language acts” and “ Inquiry utterances”
Lindfor’s description of Inquiry as a Language act, where we hear a child going beyond his or her own
present understanding when engaging with others. If we are to
hear and respond to children’s language acts, we have to listen
in new ways.
Broadening the definition of Inquiry
Please, read a chapter from Making the PYP Happen 2009 and fill an organizer template
Oh , INQUIRY……Inquiry as a problem-posing
and problem solvingInquiry expressed as
“TENSION”Play as a way of inquiry
Creating an environment for Inquiry
So what are the ingredients for environments that are conducive to learning through inquiry?
Guided by adult, children can create a community of inquirers where they:• Bounce ideas off each other• Hear and value other perspectives,
and• Learn from each other in a
classroom setting and beyond.
Creating an environment for InquiryOpportunities to investigate- both
indoors and outdoorsPhysical learning experiences Music and movement experiencesAccessible resources to provoke
students imaginationWork smarter, not harder
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Ways to assess learning through Inquiry
How will we know what we have learnt?
OBSERVATION enables us to:• Build up a clear picture of the children
and their interests• Identify what and how the children are
thinking and learning• Access the effectiveness of the
environment on the children’s learning• Extend the children’s learning
Sociocultural assessment“ from only concentrating on the individual to documenting the interactional sequence between children and between children and their teachers” Marilyn Fleer
Documentation- a holistic way of recording young children’s learning that was pioneered by the educators in Reggio Emilia
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It may include, but not limited to:Transcripts of dialoguesVideoAudioPhotographs and graphic
representations Actively shared with parents and wider
community Learning about how to support your
students best
ConversationBecause young children usually can’t write detailed reflections about their learning, educators also ask them about what they have been involved in, what they have learned and what they would like to do.
Performance assessmentGrant Wiggins refers to performance assessment as “performing with knowledge”These types of assessment can be used in any area-ranging from physical education to music, to oral presentations.We can not help but notice how they are doing when they are performing!
Process-focused assessment
This is an area of assessment where the PYP transdisciplinary skills are particularly in evidence.
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