Tuesday, March 24, 2009

red on blue

Red on blue
* school spark to inspire whole school learning. * are we going too far too fast? * we need to do lots of discussion in our classes about the STRIVE so students can see the process of the inquiry. * remember the aim of independent inquiry learning and passing onto the language and skills of inquiry. * perhaps staff focus on one stage of the model, e.g. questioning techniques. * more definition of boundaries of inquiry for next term e.g. dance or art or language. * bring/involve family cultural groups, including European * units need more time to gather info etc, probably 6 full weeks, 1 week to do Spark and teaching of STRIVE model, including the language of inquiry.