PROFESIONAL READING
People who learned to read early and easily can’t imagine what life would be like without being able to read and write. As A good book on a shelf is a friend that turns its back on people and remains a friend. Reading is a way to become a life long learner.
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Read Fuels Your Mind!
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Book Title: PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL)
Inquiry Based Approach
Written By: John Barrell
Definition of inquiry:
Inquiry is the process initiated by the students or the teachers that moves the the students from their current level of understanding to a new and deeper level of understanding.
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There are 3 kinds of inquiry: Teacher- directed inquiry, Teacher-student shared inquiry and Student-directed inquiry( Resources: .PBL book).
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Teacher-directed inquiry:starting with the familiar and comfortable ways to engage students’ thinking and responses. This makes teachers easier to identify objectives, types of questions, resources, strategies that students might find as a problematic situations, and the assessment.
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Objectives is planned as what teacher specifically want students to do, not what the teacher will say or do.
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Extend to what interest students to focus on the certain topic, and guide them into their prior-knowledge and make connections to their lives and surroundings (consideration: what topics are important for understanding the subject? which topics have societal interest? → how people live: work, art, religion, music and can relate to cultural concerns; Geology and geography; economic conditions and personal relevance; history)
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REtain information and understand it-->students search for identifying things, causes,comparing/contrasting and come up with a simple conclusions.
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Teachers provide some questions.
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Design long term strategies as create learning experiences such as pose problem and resolve it, design product, experiment → means learning experiences to retain in objectives, understanding and applying concepts, ideas and skills.
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Teacher-Student Shared Inquiry: shared decision making process, students have more say.
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Teachers can do KWL to know students’ needs, and also O-T-Q or Observe -Think-Question. it derives from investigation or observation; relate to what students already know; curios by asking questions.
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Be ready with independent research,anticipated and unpredictable directions, students’ curiosity.
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Other strategies: modelling, graphic organizers, small group inquiry/research, and so on.
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What students have learnt: does it reasonable? Practically-can it work out for…? Significant-the conclusions is meaningful
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How it applies: related to other subjects/life beyond school
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New questions.
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Students-DIrected Inquiry: students or a small group of students pose a questions they really want to work on.
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Defining their own issues, Setting their research agenda separately from class.
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Planning, monitoring and evaluating. Teachers checking the process.
Book Title: Ways to Learn Through Inquiry
Written By: Jo Fahey
Indicators of inquiry are:
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exploring, wondering and questioning
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experimenting and playing with possibilities
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making connections between previous learning and current learning
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making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens
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collecting data and reporting findings
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clarifying existing ideas and reappraising perceptions of events
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deepening understanding through the application of a concept
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making and testing theories
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researching and seeking information
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taking and defending position
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solving problems in a variety of ways
Environment of inquiry
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the educator’s roles is to provoke puzzlement, stimulate curiosity and rely upon the children’s sense of wonder.
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the children’s role is to create a community of inquirers where they bounce ideas off each other, hear and value other perspective, and learn from each other in a classroom setting and beyond.
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the school’s role is provide socio cultural context for different needs of children’s emotional and spiritual well-being.
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socio-emotional environment is the culture of the class where children can feel comfortable enough to express themselves.
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physical environment is the the organized school environment where children can have opportunity to investigate, both indoors and outdoors.
Assessments of inquiry for young children:
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observation
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documentation
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conversations
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children reflection
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performance assessment
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process-focused assessment
Strategies of inquiry
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inquiring through read-alouds and responses
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inquiring through browsing and viewing
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inquiring through organising ideas
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inquiring through play
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inquiring through drama
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inquiring through research
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inquiring through the arts
See more information that represents the implementation of these information in the classroom on each section.