Creating A Concept Based Question Lesson - Exercise 1

What is enquiry too what is an enquiry lesson? I promise to get to address these questions inward this weblog post.  The next paragraph has been taken from Page 29 of Making the PYP Happen too is the Definition of enquiry that I get got heard used on the unlike IB courses I get got taken. It is a adept commencement at defining inquiry, at 1 time lets figure out how to brand the PYP happen!

Inquiry, interpreted inward the broadest sense, is the physical care for initiated yesteryear the students or the instructor that moves the students from their electrical flow bird of agreement to a novel too deeper bird of understanding. This tin mean: exploring, wondering too questioning, experimenting too playing alongside possibilities, making connections betwixt previous learning too electrical flow learning, making predictions too acting purposefully to reckon what happens, collecting information too reporting findings, clarifying existing ideas too reappraising perceptions of events, deepening agreement through the application of a concept, making too testing theories, researching too seeking information, taking too defending a position, solving problems inward a multifariousness of ways.

The operate of Lynn Erickson helped me farther empathize how to innovation character lessons too deepen my agreement of the enquiry agency of teaching. In her majority Concept Based Curriculum  too Instruction for the Thinking Classroom she does a corking labor of unpacking what a concept based teaching should expression like. The next is taken from Chapter four of her book, the chapter is on lesson planning. 

Quality lesson plans run across sure enough criteria. They are:

• coherent - There is a clear link betwixt what students must know (factually), empathize (conceptually), too survive able to do (skillfully).
• interesting - The lesson is motivating to students. They desire to participate. 
• time-worthy - The lesson is worth fourth dimension spent.
• standards aligned - The lesson supports the deeper intent of academic standards (the often-implied conceptual intent) too equally the factual too skill-based expectations. 
• differentiated - The lesson meets the learning needs of unlike kinds of learners to maximise successful learning. 

On the in conclusion indicate of differentation the operate of Tomlinson too Edison (2003b, p.3) is quoted. I volition 1 time to a greater extent than exercise it hither equally a reminder to myself too others of the classroom elements that tin survive differentiated or modified.

• Content - The champaign of study affair too skills
• Process - How students do a personal connectedness to what they must know, understand, too survive able to do
• Products - The prove for what students know, understand, too are able to do
• Affect - The synergy betwixt stance too emotions
• Learning surround - The classroom "climate" too operating procedures

I promise this helps you lot equally much equally it has helped me agreement how to prepare an enquiry lesson. If you lot would similar to get got a closer expression at the PYP curriculum documents they tin survive easily flora yesteryear doing a Google search. I flora them here.

References

Erikson H. L., 2007, Concept-Based Curriculum too Instruction for the Thinking Classroom, Corwin, CA.

International Baccalaureate Organisation, (2009), Making the PYP happen:  H5N1 curriculum framework for international top dog education, (2009) International Baccalaureate, Cardiff, Wales.

Tomlinson, C.A., & Eidson, C. A. (2003b). Differentation inward practice: H5N1 resources guide for differentiating curriculum, grades 5-9. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision too Curriculum Development.