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Framing the inquiry through an essential questions makes the learning more transferable and shifts practice from a focus on content to a focus on concepts.
**MOST IMPORTANT: Essential questions allow more inquiry. It also allows the learning to mbe transferable between content areas/units. It allows a focus on concepts rather then a focus on content **
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When we shift our focus from a topic to a question
should be framed as a question, not a topic. An ESSENTIAL QUESTION!
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Planning Ahead:
Most important: Planning ahead and plannning backwards!!!
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What are the learning needs now and where does learning need to go now?
think about where the learning is going after one lesson
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assess knowledge, understanding, skills and thinking?
think about how we will assess the inquiries
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audit the curriculum as you go.
plan ahead AND plan backwards with the inquiry process. Have things in mind for the lesson, but if the students questioning takes a turn, allow the lesson to switch gears
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inquiry flow the moments where you are actually attending to the curriculum and recognise key conceptual understandings.
"accidentally" getting to the curriculum through inquiry!
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ensure educators have a strong understanding of the curriculum requirements
keep curriculum requirements in mind when completing
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Curriculum documentsCross-curriculum linksWhole-School programming guidelines
Teachers should dive deep into these documents before "framing the inquiry"
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deepening of learning over time.
should continue to learn over time! Grow on past knowledge
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scaffold thinking
remove teacher guidance and move towards student guided learning
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teaching by referring to a process without the process becoming overly prescriptive
How do we do this? Should we not refer to the process at all?
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engage in fruitful dialogue
dialogue is key when it comes to inquiry
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It is a fluid, sometimes messy and complex process
Inquiry & questioning is a messy process! There is no one right way to approach it.
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