PD inquiry LA

How do we inquire?

Team members : ​Mr.Sunil,Ms.Shobha,Ms.Suman,Ms.Radhikha,Ms.Ruby,Ms.Shailja,Ms.Shafali,Ms.Alisha,Ms.Karina,Ms.Deepika,Ms.Mamta.
HOD : MR. Gilles
IC : Mr. Rakhim

Prior knowledge check!

Lets do a quiz about inquiry in classroom and check our knowledge

Multiple Choice

How many levels of inquiry are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Reorder

Reorder the following, These are the various levels in inquiry

• Confirmation inquiry

• Structured inquiry

• Guided inquiry

• Open inquiry

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

​How each level looks like!

​Level 1 - Confirmation inquiry

Teacher teaches concept
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Teacher develops questions
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Teacher develops procedure
which guides students where results are already known
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-Good method to reinforce concept taught

-Teaches students to learn to follow procedure, collect and record data correctly and confirm understanding

​Level 2 -
Structured inquiry

Teacher provides the initial question
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Teacher provides an outline of the procedure
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Students formulate explanations of their findings

​Level 3 -
Guided inquiry

Teacher provides only the research/inquiry question
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Students are responsible for designing and following their own procedures to test the question and communicate their results

​Level 4 -
Open inquiry

Students formulate their own research questions, design and follow through with a developed procedure and communicate their findings and results
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Note : Students need to be equipped with the skills to conduct their own research study

Multiple Choice

What is level 1 - confirmation inquiry?

• Teachers do everything from the question to the answer

• Teachers provide question and procedure, students formulate the explanations and findings

• Teachers only provide research question, everything else students do

• Students formulate their own research question

Multiple Choice

What is level 2 - Structured inquiry?

• Teachers do everything from the question to the answer

• Teachers provide question and procedure, students formulate the explanations and findings

• Teachers only provide research question, everything else students do

• Students formulate their own research question

Multiple Choice

What is level 3 - Guided inquiry?

• Teachers do everything from the question to the answer

• Teachers provide question and procedure, students formulate the explanations and findings

• Teachers only provide research question, everything else students do

• Students formulate their own research question

Multiple Choice

What is level 4 - Open inquiry?

• Teachers do everything from the question to the answer

• Teachers provide question and procedure, students formulate the explanations and findings

• Teachers only provide research question, everything else students do

• Students formulate their own research question

​Lets recap!
How each level looks like!

​Level 1 - Confirmation inquiry

Teacher teaches concept
----------------------------------
Teacher develops questions
----------------------------------
Teacher develops procedure
which guides students where results are already known
----------------------------------
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-Good method to reinforce concept taught

-Teaches students to learn to follow procedure, collect and record data correctly and confirm understanding

​Level 2 -
Structured inquiry

Teacher provides the initial question
-----------------------------------

Teacher provides an outline of the procedure
-----------------------------------

Students formulate explanations of their findings

​Level 3 -
Guided inquiry

Teacher provides only the research/inquiry question
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Students are responsible for designing and following their own procedures to test the question and communicate their results

​Level 4 -
Open inquiry

Students formulate their own research questions, design and follow through with a developed procedure and communicate their findings and results
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Note : Students need to be equipped with the skills to conduct their own research study

Discussion time,
Where are we now?
Level 1/2/3/4?

Poll

Do you think Level 4 inquiry is possible In your classes?

• Yes, definitely for any topic

• Yes, for the concepts students know well

• Yes, for older students who know how to be an independent worker

• NO, it is not possible

Word Cloud

End of part 1, Your key take aways from the inquiry session, Please answer in 1-2 words

How to design your concept based unit in LA?

1. Initial question

   1. What is a unit web and how to do it??

2. Teachers discover their own method and follow their own procedure

Level 3 - Guided inquiry

1. Initial question

   1. What is a unit web and how to do it??

2. Teachers to find out about the unit web in PG : 55

3. Teachers formulate explanation and findings

Level 2 Structured inquiry

Lets inquire on "The unit web"

The unit web

We are going to be looking at "The unit web"

A unit web is an instrument whose purpose is to identify the potential subtopics and concepts that may be included in a unit

A unit web

 A unit web is an instrument whose purpose is to identify the

potential subtopics and concepts that may be included in a unit.
(page 55-56)

Understanding
Language

Critiquing
Language

Producing
Language

Responding to

language

Title

1

Uncover
Concept

2

Address
Concept

3

Understand

Concept
In detail

4

Production

Open Ended

under which box, does Know, Do, become come under?

1. 1.Understanding language strand

2. 2.Responding to language strand

3. 3.critiquing language strand

4. 4.Producing language strand

Steps for
planning a unit
of inquiry ( pg: 62)

1.

Create the unit title ( focus for context )

2.

Identify the conceptual lens

3.

Identify the unit strands

4.

Web out the units' topics and concepts under the strands

5.

Write the generalization that you would expect students to derive from the
unit study

6.

Develop guiding questions

7.

Identify the critical content

8.

Identify the key skills

9.

Write the culminating assessment and score guide or rubric

10.

Design suggested learning experiences

11.

Write the unit overview

A complete example of how to design your unit using the unit web concept


https://pathwaysschool-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/rakhim_ebrams_pathways_in/EbwPyK_vhCBIuHn620giP2kBM-BLQz4Mm0Yjj9YqB4Z8qg?e=EPVDF3

Sample From
The Book

 Page number 55 –The basics of the unit web

 Sample 1 : pg 177

 Sample 2 : pg 186

Open Ended

Burning questions , if any