Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquiry. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2016

Teachers as Lead Learners

I've been a huge fan of the thought of teachers and administrators being "lead learners". In this post, "Educators as Lead Learners", Jackie Gerstein does a great job of describing the importance of being intentional about how we learn with our students.

She discusses the idea of learning being an "iterative process". I completely agree with this and it made me think of our own Inquiry Process.

Enjoy.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Increasing Interactions with Students through Questions.

What is so Important About Asking Questions?

In the article Michael P. Clough references the below figure.

"Penick et al. (1996) suggested a questioning strategy particularly suited to science teaching in that it emphasizes students' prior experiences and using these experiences to build relationships, apply knowledge, and create explanations (Figure 1)."

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