Cultures in relation to our own.
Whole school spark. e.g visiting cultural group(s)
Individuals or classes?
Questioning - focus? TO day on questioning coming up next Friday.
Questioning gives direction and focus to study and achievement.
Identify different cultures identified in our school community - shoulder tapping.
Sharing websites and doing interactive resources. Sharing parents if good.
Research and finding out.
Need to know spark well before getting into unit so we have schoolwide spark rather than individual.
Using Voice - how can this happen successfully? Dance, song, game coming from arts emphasis in culture. eg. batik, tie-dying, leads to focus on country.
Not same voice throughout school, choose per room, but whole class can investigate same topic and have same activities.
Should we have a whole school question with rooms doing country choice?? or is it better to let classes set questions?? Great value in questions set in classes by children after spark.
Find culture relative to school for ready resource?
If we don't have a set question, does it make it too open/wide for children to maintain focus and achieve outcome. Could we use children's questions to choose one, two or three as focus, not everyone's questions. Gives control to chn and T for direction.
More time needed for teaching the skills to question well, to try questions. All student questions acceptable, use to choose most useful questions teaching children how to question.
