ED1231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Self-Assessment, Design Thinking, Project-Based Learning
Humanities
Lecture 9 – Week 9 - Inquiry learning in Humanities
Exam Question on the Inquiry Process
- Do you agree that kids learn best when they are looking for answers for things that are interesting?
o Why?
▪ Contextual
▪ Means something to them
- What do you understand by the term ‘inquiry learning’?
o Students get to pose their own questions
o Problem based learning
o Project based learning
o Child lead
- How do you think inquiry learning applies to HASS?
- EXAM QUESTION
o What is the inquiry process?
o What is an inquiry teacher?
o Good characteristics
o HASS skills fitting in with the inquiry process
o 2 Different approaches
Inquiry Approach
- Even though we are talking about inquiry specifically for humanities these same skills and approaches
can be applied to all stem subjects. The same approaches should be determined by the school and
then implemented. This will avoid student becoming confused about the approaches.
- To prepare our students for the 21st century it is absolutely imperative that we employ an inquiry
approach. Our job is no longer about teaching content it is about how to locate that content. HASS,
lends itself to the inquiry approach especially when you consider the skills of analysing, researching,
evaluating, questioning, communicating
Confident, connected, actively involves, life long learners
- Critical thinking
- Making decisions and solving problems
o We need to let them solve problems
- To cope with the demands of the 21st century, students need to know more than core subjects. They
need to know how to use their knowledge and skills-by thinking critically, applying knowledge to new
situations, analysing information, comprehending new ideas, communicating, collaborating, solving
problems and making decisions.
o Kath Murdoch 2010
What is an inquiry teacher?
- Kath Murdoch Video
o The way of seeing the student
▪ See the student as a competent, capable, curious partner in learning
▪ See the light in each child, find what makes each student intrigued
o Ask more than they tell
▪ Dominant way of working is through the right kinds of questions
▪ Scaffolding
o Know how to sit with the students
o Know their curriculum
▪ Move with the student’s interests in order to come to the curriculum
▪ Strong repertoire of strategies
o They are prepared to share the journey with their students
o Prepared to say ‘I don’t know but I wonder who we find out’
o In the centre along side the student
o Know where it is that they are wanting to take their students
o Work with the interests and questions that the student brings to the learning
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Document Summary
Lecture 9 week 9 - inquiry learning in humanities. Do you agree that kids learn best when they are looking for answers for things that are interesting: why, contextual, means something to them. What do you understand by the term inquiry learning": students get to pose their own questions, problem based learning, project based learning, child lead. Exam question: what is the inquiry process, what is an inquiry teacher, good characteristics, hass skills fitting in with the inquiry process, 2 different approaches. Even though we are talking about inquiry specifically for humanities these same skills and approaches can be applied to all stem subjects. The same approaches should be determined by the school and then implemented. This will avoid student becoming confused about the approaches. To prepare our students for the 21st century it is absolutely imperative that we employ an inquiry approach. Our job is no longer about teaching content it is about how to locate that content.
