Inquiry as a process – a possible approach
Focusing inquiry: Curriculum choices
- What do I know about each student’s prior knowledge, goals and aspirations, and learning strengths and needs?What is important and worth spending time on, given where my students are at?
- What concepts, big ideas, and academic vocabulary need to be introduced or reinforced?
- What contexts might help my students discover and explore these big ideas?
Teaching inquiry: Pedagogy choices
- How can I teach my next lesson most effectively?
- What learning tasks and approaches are most likely to help my students to progress?
- What formative assessment methods can I use to monitor student progress and understanding?
Learning inquiry: Outcomes for students
- What happened as a result of the teaching?
- Did my students achieve the specified outcomes?
- What are the implications for future teaching?
Is there something I need to change about how I teach?
- How can I teach more effectively?
- How can I maintain a communicative approach?
- How can I recognise the diverse learning needs of all my students and incorporate tikanga into my teaching?
- How can I involve families, community and whānau (family; to be born) in my teaching?
What are the next steps for my students’ learning?
- What concepts/big ideas need to be reinforced or introduced next?
- What different contexts might my students need to discover and explore these big ideas?
Last updated August 28, 2012
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