SPS+Staff+Meeting+13+March+2008

= = __**Thursday 13 March 2008**__ Presentation including learning intention and success criteria.

> > > > ||  || **WHAT IS DODGY ABOUT INQUIRY LEARNING?** > > > > >
 * **WHAT IS LEARNING?**
 * gaining knowledge and experience
 * a process of acquiring skills, knowledge and strategies to take us further in life
 * acquiring new knowledge, skills, abilities, understandings and able to apply
 * building on existing skills, understandings and knowledge
 * deepening understanding
 * acquiring/being able to do new "stuff"
 * acquiring new knowledge or skills
 * acquisition of knowledge or skills
 * development of understanding ||  || ** WHAT IS INQUIRY **?
 * an active process, investigating
 * a process of finding out information
 * a process which enables us to explore what we know and investigate further in specific areas
 * active learning, personalised learning
 * a process that is undertaken, actively involved in personal research
 * children investigating, researching and presenting an idea or subject which is driven by them
 * independent research, questioning
 * lateral thinking, active participating
 * finding out answers to questions and wonderings ||
 * **WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT INQUIRY LEARNING?**
 * good for senior students
 * good for senior students
 * enables higher order thinking
 * deeper understandings
 * child-centred
 * child-directed
 * teacher facilitated
 * actively involved/learning
 * independence
 * students can follow their own interests
 * develops creativity
 * chance to develop leadership
 * teaching skills for lifelong learning
 * encompasses many types of resources
 * individual levels
 * personal ideas and questions
 * choice
 * making links and applying them to other situation
 * time management, independence, collaborative
 * authentic purpose - a result to demonstrate understanding
 * relevant
 * building on existing knowledge
 * co-operative
 * it's only one way of doing things
 * can lead to knowledge and not interpretation
 * time consuming, requires careful managing, noise
 * insufficient resources, space, computers, internet etc
 * parent assistance?
 * can get sidetracked and off on a tangent
 * children can get lost .... teachers too
 * filtering of website information
 * it can be very poorly done
 * over teacher-directed, assessment
 * chunks of relevant knowledge can be missed
 * not enough teacher direction or focus
 * if children are not trained in the process they don't know what to do with the information found
 * sometimes no result is achieved
 * lack of teacher understanding, preparation time
 * limiting for NESB, CWSN, junior students
 * classroom management in large classes
 * groupings (some students dominate group)
 * not constructive, time filler, keep on task
 * avoidance, monitoring, accessing information
 * can be too broad, abstract context ||

[|"21st Century Learner: A glimpse of the future"] video clip

|| * who, where, what, when, why, wondering, wishful, want (an answer) || **The Big 6** * who, when, why, where, how, what? || **Seven Pillars** * ? ||
 * What "inquiry" learning models do we already know about?**
 * **Ralph Pirozzo**
 * learning styles
 * Bloom's Taxonomy
 * 48/56 grids
 * higher order thinking
 * multiple intelligences ||  ** SAUCE **
 * setting the scene, acquire, use, create, evaluate
 * rubric
 * questioning model
 * Trevor Bond 008!
 * 5 stages, non-linear, float in and out || **ACTION LEARNING**
 * child developed questions
 * decide, find, use, record, present, evaluate
 * 5-6 stages
 * linear
 * **8 Ws**

> > || **6 Thinking Hats** > > > > || || What model do you recommend? || || We want an overview - not action learning as that's our experience. || [|Medieval Helpdesk]
 * **Bloom's Taxonomy**
 * synthesis
 * appplication
 * knowledge
 * analysiing
 * understanding
 * evaluating
 * applying
 * black - negative
 * yellow - positive
 * blue - thinking
 * green - creative
 * red - feelings
 * white - knowledge
 * Edward de Bono || **Thinking Keys**
 * reverse
 * ABC
 * compare
 * BAR
 * combine
 * what if
 * the answer is ... question
 * Our questions:**
 * Which ones are schools adopting or adjusting?
 * We would like a summary of positive and negatives of each model.