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Along these same lines, I asked a question back at the start of this class
concerning the mandated curriculum within a district. I was worried about
not having enough time to cover all the topics that we were prescribed by
our district. I am happy to report that I have stopped being so uptight
about that and have recently been using an inquiry approach to my subject
matter. The children have asked their own questions, found many answers on
their own and gone beyond what we would have simply covered had I stayed
exactly with the designated curriculum. We all are learning together and
it's so much fun! We aren't learning for the test, but rather because we
want to find out the answers to our own questions!
Gayle
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From: Stine, Annette [SMTP:Stine-A@TROY.K12.OH.US]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:12 PM
To: teacher-talkinquiry@learner.org
Subject: [Teacher-talkinquiry] session 3
One question that arose during our site group discussion was how to
use an
inquiry approach in a district where covering science content is
mandated.
My answer to this was to start with the broad goals that you want
students
to achieve at the beginning of each unit. Then, share those goals
with the
students and allow them to work towards those goals in an inquiry
setting.
Having students studying different areas that they wonder about and
then
sharing the results of what they learned will often lead to covering
a broad
range of specific content knowledge while they develop process
skills too.
You can help transfer the learning that they develop by connecting
that
knowledge to the content that you need to cover.
Annette
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