Engaging Learners in Inquiry

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Engaging Learners in Inquiry

• I care. I count. I can.

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Learning Indicators for Engaged Learning

• Vision for students
• Responsible for learning
• Energized by learning
• Strategic
• Collaborative

• Vision for Tasks
• Challenging
• Authentic
• Interdisciplinary
• Integrated
• Relevant
• Meaningful
• NCREL

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Assessment of engaged learning

• Performance-based
• Generative
• Authentic contexts for performance
• Represents significant knowledge and enduring
  skills
• Performance criteria are clear
• Interwoven with curriculum and instruction
• Equitable standards NCREL ENGUAGE

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Instructional models

• Interactive
• Generative
• Construction of meaning
• Production of knowledge
• Active problem solving
• Learning environments encouraging depth, social
  interaction, reflection
• NCREL Enguage

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Learning Context

• Knowledge building learning community
• Collaborative
• Empathetic
• Heterogeneous grouping
• Flexible
• Active roles for learners
• Teacher facilitator, guide, co-investigator
• NCREL Enguage

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Student roles

• Explorer
• Cognitive apprentice
• Producer of knowledge
• Responsible and self-directed
• Discoverer
• Thinker
• Validating not accepting
• NCREL Designing Learning and Technology for
  Educational Reform
• Violet Harada- Inquiry Learning Through Librarian
  Teacher Partnerships

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Partnerships for 21st Century Skills

• Inventive Thinking Life Skills
• Adaptability and managing complexity
• Self-direction
• Curiosity
• Creativity
• Risk Taking

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Engaging Learners Susan Black Teachers Can
Engage Disengaged Students. Education Digest.
March 2004, 39-45.

• Teacher presents compelling curricular content
  with attention to background knowledge, empathy,
  BIG IDEAS.

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Engaging Learners

• Teacher introduces a generative idea with
  multiple windows to understanding.

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Engaging Learners

• Essential questions are built with meaning and
  relevance to content.

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Engaging Learners

• Teacher links content to students prior
  knowledge and experience.
• Understanding supplants coverage, correct answer
  compromise.
• Understanding replaces inflexible knowledge,
  scripts, misconceptions, stereotypes, engraving.

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Engaging Learners

• Teacher engages students in active role,
  encourages social interaction for learning
  outcomes.
• Teacher encourages learner to initiate and adapt
  learning activities.
• Teacher forms groups that work to achieve the
  learning goal.
• Reflection is built in.
• Assessment improves performance.

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Engaging Learners

• Teacher provides access to diverse instructional
  materials and encourages learners to select and
  use resources that will help them learn.

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We are all problem solvers by nature. Engage us!

• COMMUNITY
• CONTENT
• CHOICES
• SUCCESS
• CURIOSITY
• ORIGINALITY
• SELF-EXPRESSION
• RELATIONSHIPS