TEACHING IDEAS VIA THE SMART BOARD
Picture Word Induction Model
- Use the words that students brainstorm by looking at your poster.
- Make “Sort Columns” (cut the words out and students place in their own Ziploc bag).
- Students write their own sentences
- Cut/paste into word sort columns (vowels and parts of speech…)
- Make sentences using words adding in articles, prepositions etc. and submit sentences for DOL.
National Standards Math
- multiplication grid
Sumo paint 2.0 – on-line image editor software
www.sumopaint.com
save this file as a jpeg
open and load
kids can create a sumo peg account (kids just quick register)
do art on it…
Math dragon - animation on fractions – youtube.
Blog Spot
http://stewiessmartthoughts.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html
password – where oars go!
Weebly – free website
Username
Password
Email
Click on orange button – create a site
Title your site
Learning to use
Pre made site
Click and drag
New favourites/ bookmarks site: www.delicious.com
COMMUNITIES OF INQUIRY
How can inquiry get us to “deeper understanding” in an outcome based curriculum?
What is inquiry? Inquiry is a way of looking at the world, a questioning stance we take when we seek to learn something we don’t know yet. (Diane Parker, Planning for Inquiry is not an Oxymoron)
Inquiry is a stance or model we take, not a methodology or teaching strategy.
Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understanding the world. As such, it is a stance that pervades all aspects of life and is essential to the ways in which knowledge is created. Inquiry is based on the belief that understanding is constructed the process of people working and conversing together as they pose and solve the problems, make discoveries and rigorously test the discoveries that arise in the course of the shared activity.
www.galilleo.org/inquiry
Characteristics of an inquiry based approach to teaching include:
- Focus on few ideas or areas for inquiry (ex: extinction vs. dinosaurs) in great depth
- Select a focus with the greatest potential to spark thinking and controversy.
- Continually ask students to make tentative judgments about understanding.
- Use disciplines as a repository of information in addressing pressing concepts or issues.
- Employ large quantities of data form diverse sources.
- Draw on firsthand experiences of students and teachers
Inquiry is messy and constantly cycles back… It is a philosophical stance rather than a set of strategies, activities or a particular teaching method.
INQUIRY STANCE
Operating with an inquiry stance… critical to being an effective teacher… An Inquiry stance is one that positions teachers as a problem poser , asking questions… viewing learning in a more complex and dynamic fashion rather than …
HIGHER LEVEL THINKING
- What did I do? (Remember knowledge – 1st level Blooms)
- What knowledge, skills and strategies did I use to complete the task? (Understand/Comprehension)
- What is important given where my student are at (focusing inquiry)
- What strategies (evidence based are most likely to help my student learn this?
- What happened as a result of the teaching and ware the implications for further teaching.
- What steps did I take to achieve this? (analysis)
- What are may strengths and what would I learn to learn more about or develop my skills and strategies more in? (Evaluation)
- How will I use this new knowledge and these learning strategies?
WHY PROMOTE INQUIRY?
- To encourage learners to think for themselves.
- To explore their thinking
- To facilitate their understanding
- To encourage higher level thinking
- “To raise children into citizens who think clearly and deeply, who have gained knowledge and acquire judgment, and who take action with humanity in mind.” ( Stephanie Harvey and Harvey Daniels)
WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT?
It boils down to the quality of learning we desire for those in charge…
COMPETING ASSUMPTIONS
Craft Culture Assumptions
Knowledge is created primarily by outside authorities not with oneself.
Think learning is a fairly uncomplicated affair. Most students are not naturally eager to learn.
CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH
-Individuals and /or communities create knowledge. Sense making is a complex process.
-Students are naturally curious. Students can engage in higher order thinking students will undertake meaningful challenging tasks.
-Risk taking by teacher and students is necessary and good to stimulate thinking, explore multiple perspectives and to make responsible decisions in an ambiguous world.
SPIRAL OF KNOWLEDGE
A spiraling process continues throughout each individual’s lifetime and occurs in practical situations in the workplace and community as well as in educational institutions.(G. Wells)
INQUIRY ORIENTED INSTRUCTION CURRICULUM MODELS
- Project based learning
- Expeditionary learning
- Problem based
- Group investigations
- Inquiry groups
- Guided inquiry
- Simulations
BANCHI AND BELL 2008
Level 1 Confirmation - teacher gives the questions procedure and outcome
Level 2 Structured -teacher gives question and procedure outcome not known in advance
Level 3 Guided - teacher gives question student generates procedures outcome not shown in advance
Level 4 Open - Student generates question and procedure outcome is not known in advance
PLANNING FOR INQUIRY
As teachers plan for inquiry some questions would continually drive their thinking and decisions making including:
How can I help my students realize that they have questions and that their questions matter?
How can I crate a classroom environment that supports my students inquires without directing them?
How can I help my students connect inquiry to questions and issues of deeper personal and social significance?
How can I help my students share their learning in interesting relevant authentic ways?
Units can be thought of as opportunities to explore, define and make sense of the “big ideas”
Conceptualizing Instruction and framing the unit/module
What is a concept or understanding that is rich and significant enough to deserve in depth treatment?
FACILITATION OF DISCUSSION THAT PROMOTES INQUIRY
What made you think of that?
Can you explain your reasoning?
How did you solve that problem?
What made you decide to try that strategy?
How would you explain that to others?
Out of the Question – Quick reference resource
Why ask questions in the classroom; assessing questioning process (flip book format)
Mini inquiries are short term small group inquiries that lest
5 E Learning Cycle - engage; explore; explain; elaborate; evaluate
INVITATION TO INQUIRY QUESTION…
Why is inquiry so critical in a constructivist approach? I need more information on the constructivist approach.
How can I use inquiry to aid in my project using the SMART board? How should I get the student Inquiry Global Citizens project started? What learning skills do I want to teach in this project? Jot not making; analytical research skills;
How can we teach without the focus on the technology but on the learning outcomes?
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