Week 13

Teaching as inquiry

the organised pursuit of curiosity

teaching as inquiry
where teachers inquire into their own practice and use evidence to make decisions about ways to change that practice for the benefit of students


inquiry learning
A process where students co-construct their learning in an authentic context

involve me and I will understand


we want to understand the world around us - ask questions
What will I learn today (a question)

Constructivest - learn ask questions, reflect - not teacher learning

Inquiry - teacher is the faciliator

plan units
develops a question or a topic to explore
designing activities to engage students
open ended questions
research and investigate
present and discuss
reflect

levels of inquiry
structured - teacher directed - question then step by step instructions
guided - students take more responsibility - teacher guides the inquiry for direction
open - students take lead in question and methods - require higher order thinking

Fertile questions
Open
undermining - makes the learner questions their basic assumptions
Rich- cannot be answered without careful and lengthy research, often able to be broken into subsidiary questions
connected relevant to the learners
chargedhas an ethical
practical

Virtual Substitute Teacher:
Introducing the concept of a classroom poxy
helping to replace the problem of the teacher being absent and the relieving teachers often not right subject, not ready, not organised.  Technology can help overcome issue of teacher absence.  Not replacing the teacher but helping for when human absent for whatever reason.  

FRIEDMAN, D., SALOMON, O., & HASLER, B. S. (2013). Virtual substitute teacher: Introducing the concept of a classroom proxy. London, 28-29 November 2013 King’s College London, UK, 186.

Scafolding - already have teacher aides assisting the teacher, although a human, could this area be taking over by the BOT
Marking would be great - already started with some programmes