Inquiry Week 4What are we finding?Where are we going?

Then no windIs favourable!

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1 Concept

2 Conflict

3 Construct

4 Consider

The PIT

CLARITY

CONFUSION

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Next WeekPlanning an inquiry unit

For Term 2

What topics lead to great inquiry?

Inquiry begins with the desire to understand.

• a question• an issue• a problem• an idea• a puzzlement• a wondering

“All men by nature desire to know.” - Aristotle

Beginning: What Matters?• Inquiry needs a topic• It begins with a meaningful (real)

question, problem or issue.• This question, problem or issue can

be initiated by the teacher or by students.

• It requires a strong mapping to the appropriate curricula

Key Features of Inquiry• Creating Knowledge

– using or manipulating knowledge as in analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and evaluation, rather than only reproducing knowledge in previously stated forms. It involves idea improvement and ongoing feedback.

• Disciplined Inquiry – gaining in-depth understanding of limited topics, rather than

superficial acquaintance with many, and using elaborated forms of communication to learn and to express one's conclusions.

• Value Beyond School– the production of discourse, products, and performances that have

personal, aesthetic, or social significance beyond demonstration of success to a teacher.

•From context to concept e.g. poverty / creativity

•Have a go - write a question for the creativity unit of study e.g. Poverty - What determines wealth and poverty? or How does poverty impact lives?

•What might be a good question for your inquiry next term?

•How can you make questions rich and fertile so that learning and understanding are rich and deep?

undermining

open

connected

rich

charged

practical

A Fertile Question is...

Leads to an expansive answer

Digs into my beliefs / challenges me

Is relevant and authentic

Will lead to a wealth of new ideas

Will be absorbing and consuming

Is manageable and can be resourced

Ref: Yoram Harpaz & Adam Lefstein - Fertile Questionshttp://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/Colleagues/pages/default/harpaz/?reFlag=1

How well am I teaching for the 21st century?

2009 Theme: "Citizenship is Everyone's Responsibility!”

2008 Theme: "Local, global and connected!”

2007 Theme: "The future starts now!”

2006 Theme: "This is our world and we are responsible for it!"

Curriculum themes

Well Being and Leisure

Change

Interaction

Sustainability

New life

That's Life

EnergyLife is

for Living

Innovation and

Creativity

Power

Do all eyes see the

same thing?

My world, your world, our world

Inquiry Examples from Galileohttp://www.galileo.org/tips/inquiry.html#Hum1