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Topics of the Day
Initial Thoughts and Questions: Please discuss the following questions with one other person and be prepared to share with the larger group.
- Are you familar with today's topic? Where and in what context have you heard about this topic?
- What is your understanding of this topic?
- How, if at all, do you think it relates to Inquiry Instruction? How would it effect lessons and instruction?
- Any other thoughts on this topic?
Follow up Questions after the lesson:
- What is still unclear about this topic?
- What new questions do you have about this topic?
Topics of the Day:
- Student Centered
- Cognitive Development
- Spiral Curriculum
- Creating Space
- Creating Collaboration
- Meta-cognition
- Backward Design
- Authentic Assesment
- Multiple Intelligences
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Metacognition
To give variety of opportunities to the students to understand what is taught in the class. To help the student with the steps of learning and understaning/comprehension in order to achieve slef/independant learning. To increase the feeling of the student that they are learning, which will increase their motivation to learn.
How can I increase the movitivation of a student who is not organized and responsible? How can I assist them in being more responsible when transitioning between classes?
Alison did a good job and I enjoyed it. I think the lesson would be more for the parents of my students, on back to school night, than for my students particularly. As a teacher I can be more aware of my student's needs and adjust my style as needed for every student.
Six Questions and Alison Cook-Sather's presentation
I am not familiar with nor have I ever heard of this topic.
I understand Metacognition as learning strategies and awarenss of how students learn and even how we teach.
Inquiry is related by open-ended discussions, planning a goal and opening different boxes to implement it reminding each person how we sing and/or even present differently..
I do plan to open my and my choir's understanding of the music by brain storming about the composer's intent, music in general, opening up other boxes for discussion. I will also try other ways of performance with soloists and the choir to achieve blend, singleness of spiritual thought, assessing their individual strengths and weaknesses as soloists and choir members. I will also try to be more transparent as I develop the process to present a song. Why? Why not? I may even begin to coach more than one person to sing the same solo hoping to demonstrate the diversity, develop comparable analysis and bringing their own emotions and experiences to the song.
Other questions may develop as I open these boxes but the process is clear right now.
I thought Alison was clear, resourceful, and informative and her activity was thought provoking.
Six Questions and Alison Cook-Sather's presentation
I am not familiar with nor have I ever heard of this topic.
I understand Metacognition as learning strategies and awarenss of how students learn and even how we teach.
Inquiry is related by open-ended discussions, planning a goal and opening different boxes to implement it reminding each person how we sing and/or even present differently..
I do plan to open my and my choir's understanding of the music by brain storming about the composer's intent, music in general, opening up other boxes for discussion. I will also try other ways of performance with soloists and the choir to achieve blend, singleness of spiritual thought, assessing their individual strengths and weaknesses as soloists and choir members. I will also try to be more transparent as I develop the process to present a song. Why? Why not? I may even begin to coach more than one person to sing the same solo hoping to demonstrate the diversity and develop comparable analysis.
Other questions may develop as I open these boxes but the process is clear right now.
I thought Alison was clear, resourceful, and informative and her activity was thought provoking.
Other topics to consider
Teaching science "intersected with other parts of the curriculum"
Inquiry as a framework rather than a series of activities.
Asking questions, dialoguing with students about the difference between data, observations and conclusions.
Assessment of Inquiry
Everday Assessment in the Science Classroom
Chapter 5: Assessment of Inquiry by Richard A. Duschi
The focus on scientific inquiry needs to be on attainment of evidence and how it is used to generate and justify explanations.
Synthesize the research:
1. The incorporation and assessment of Scientific Inquiry in educational contexts need to form 3 integrated domains:
2. The conditions for science inquiry learning and assessment improve through the establishment of:
Other possible topics to examine
project based learning
intrinsic/extrinsic motivation
engaging and education parents
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
differentiation
Creating Space
I look forward to reviewing the results of the study that evaluates the project based course vs. survey based course in terms of memory retention. It will be helpful for me when presenting my project-based program at this year's open house.
Me too, would love to hear more about
I'd love to hear more about your project-based program.
7/21 PM Observations re: Dr. Grobstein's presentation... Boxes?
Why are we stuck in the box of putting everyone and everything in a box. I thought the push was on thinking outside-the-box. Or, in fact, is this yet another box (in light of Dr. Grobstein sharing this morning there aren't any facts).
Inquiry
I found the analogy about being a sea useful because it was an obvious way to bring to light how inquiry must have some direction and support. Since students are unfamiliar with this style of learning, we as teachers need to make sure we demonstrate how to go about thinking in this manner.
"Science is often thought of
"Science is often thought of as a specialized set of interests, abilities and practices, rather than as a general process of question-asking, intuition-testing and story-revising that all of us engage in daily, and which all of us--whatever our content area--can pursue in our classrooms. Understood in this way, science is accessible to everyone, and perhaps best taught intersected with other parts of the curriculum, by teachers who are themselves excited by the sort of teaching and learning that involves exploring new realms and trying out new tasks."
Diane, the institute description (quoted above) seems to say that all of us engage in the general process of question-asking, intuition-testing and story-revising (inquiry?). Do you agree? I wonder if students are familiar with this kind of learning/exploring the world but that they are unfamiiar with teachers asking for/assessing this kind of learning?
50/50
Understanding inquiry. Inquiring minds still want to know. Does inquiry instruction lead to a target? How do we develop an understanding of how to learn for our students? If we believe that learning occurrs continously, then we could conclude that students can master their own learning in their own time. When we allow the student to emerge in learning and move away from just learning for a specific test, we take some of the pressures off of them to learn and make the observations that will help with their summaries which will lead to the AH Ha moment!
7/21 AM Observations
We tend to stop searching when we find something we like / are comfortable with.
Inquiry based learning from Wikipedia
Are we comfortable with this explanation of inquiry based learning from Wikipedia?
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