A process model for learning, inquiry, research, and creativity for WCPSS K-8 students

*Developing wonder…

*Consistency across grade levels and schools

*Scaffolding for learning and development of skills

*Emphasis on engagement: tapping into each student’s sense of wonder

*Deliberate focus on questioning

*Closely parallel current literacy language and strategies

*Why a systemwide model?

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*Basic principles

*Thinking and research are NOT LINEAR PROCESSES

*Start with COMPELLING CONTENT

*Develop BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE

*Connect to the learner’s REAL WORLD

*Build on quality QUESTIONS

*Authentic learners need CHOICES

*Authentic learners have VOICES

*ENGAGEMENT is critical

*CHALLENGE leads to depth of understanding

*SOCIAL INTERACTION boosts success

*COMMUNICATION and sharing build learning communities

*NEW KNOWLEDGE is the goal

*Wise learners REFLECT and EVALUATE continually

*Wise teachers ASSESS and provide ongoing feedback

*Authentic learning and research take TIME.

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*Ongoing and continually – through every phase of the learning process - not just at the end

*Modeling metacognition

*Focus on process, materials, media, and product

*Student-centered

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*Activate thinking

*Generate curiosity

*Tap prior knowledge

*Build background information

*Develop and frame multiple quality questions: essential, irreverent, inventive, hypothetical, probing, divergent, provocative, unanswerable?

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*Construct meaning from multiple resources: text, graphics, multimedia

*Use facts to build ideas

*Determine relationships between ideas

*Manage search process

*Record information using own words*Investigate

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*Use facts to build meaning

*Connect ideas

*Determine relationships between ideas

*Differentiate important or central ideas and concepts

*Draw conclusions

*Use vocabulary of content knowingly

*Design product(s) that create new understanding*Synthesize

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*Communicate new knowledge

*Communicate clearly main idea and supporting points

*Use appropriate format for audience

*Self-assess and revise product based on feedback

*Encourage student freedom of expression through multiple modalities and technologies

*Encourage creativity

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