Last term I organised and assisted in the implementation of an 8 week integrated Guided Inquiry unit of work with four Year 7 Humanities classes and their teachers.
We are currently having two Professional Development days and this morning I headed up a presentation of our AGQTP/AIS funded Guided Inquiry action research project. I briefly introduced the theory of Guided Inquiry and a brief overview including photographic illustrations and screen dumps from wiki pages. I also showed the analysis of reflection sheets the students completed during the project and how their knowledge and Information Literacy skills had grown.
This was followed by a teacher speaking of her experience and then three students, who had come in just for the presentation (in fulll uniform), spoke of their perspective and showed some of their work. Another teacher finished off by speaking of her experience of being a 'facilitator' rather than a 'fount of all knowledge' and how this had changed her perspective of her role as a teacher. She also told of the many areas of application she could see for Guided Inquiry.
The response from staff was extremely positive and planning has begun in a number of faculties to change pedagogy for aspects of topics next year - oh dear it will be a busy one for me!
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