We decided to pursue inquiry learning within the Language portion of the school day. Even though we know there are tonnes of opportunities to integrate other subject areas, we needed a focus time of day. We felt it may be too much to try to intentionally think of other curriculum areas early on in our journey- though our goal was to get there. This made our curriculum focus in the early stages purely around oral, reading, writing and media expectations.
We started by identifying where we would like to see inquiry learning at the end of our work together. What would it look like for students and teachers? We planned 4 distinct stages of implementation: beginning, developing, applying and innovating.
Our end vision is to have students who can:
- manage and organize their time/materials/ resources
- problem-solve
- think creatively and critically around self-selected and content-based inquiries
- show responsibility for their learning.
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