Mapping curriculum skills and capabilities to an inquiry learning framework

Mapping curriculum skills and

capabilities to an

inquiry learning framework

Karen BonannoFounder & Managing Director

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What is inquiry learning?• Inquiry-based learning is a constructivist approach

• Students have ownership of their learning

• Starts with exploration and questioning and leads to investigation into a worthy question, issue, problem or idea.

• Involves asking questions, gathering and analysing information, generating solutions, making decisions, justifying conclusions and taking action.

http://www.inquiringmind.co.nz/WhatIsInquiry.htm


Why inquiry?• Students are at some stage of progression along a

continuum that starts at teacher directed units, includes negotiated units through to student driven learning.

• Students are actively supported and scaffolded by teachers in the acquisition of relevant skills.

• Students are engaged in learning.

• Students deepen or gain understanding of core concepts relevant to the context.

• Students work collaboratively in small groups.

http://ictnz.com/Inquiry%20Learning/inquirydefinition.htm


Why inquiry?

• Students use and apply the information then share their solutions, decisions, thinking and outcomes in a celebration of understanding. They are not involved in a process of shifting and sharing information.

• Students will access a range of information sources.

• Students predicate their work on prior knowledge.

• Students will be actively engaged in asking and following up on questions as a central skill.

http://ictnz.com/Inquiry%20Learning/inquirydefinition.htm


Different frameworks

“Big 6” - Eisenberg

Information skills (NSW Dept. of Ed.)

Model of inquiry – Stripling

PLUS model – Herring

McKenzie – Research Cycle

Guided Inquiry Design – Kuhlthau et al


Kuhlthau, CC et al (2012) Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, Libraries Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California, p. 31.

• Catch attention

• Build background

knowledge

• Explore ideas

• Articulate inquiry

question

• Capture the information

• What learned

• Reflect


The dynamic combination

Kuhlthau, CC et al (2012) Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, Libraries Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California.

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http://atc21s.org/


ATC21s skills

Ways of thinking

1. Creativity & innovation

2. Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making

3. Learning to learn, metacognition

Ways of working

4. Communication

5. Collaboration (teamwork)

Tools for working

6. Information literacy

7. ICT literacy

Living in the world

8. Citizenship – local and global

9. Life and career

10. Personal & social responsibility – including cultural awareness & competence

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Binkley M et al 2012 ‘Defining twenty-first century skills’, in Griffin,

P McGaw, B & Care E (eds.), Assessment and teaching of 21st

century skills, Springet, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 18-19.


http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/History/Curriculum/F-10

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/History/Content-structure

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http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Overview/General-capabilities-in-the-Australian-Curriculum


http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/

Critical-and-creative-thinking/Continuum#page=2


Work in progress 1

Stage 1 (current)

• Identify specific skills in a curriculum / capability area

• Map these skills to inquiry framework

• Add subject or general capability identifier

[Note: As curriculum areas are developed this will feed into the framework, e.g. Geography]


Work in progress 2 & 3

Stage 2

• Identify the common language in each section

• Reconstruct

Stage 3

• Publish under Creative Commons – Share,

comment, add to ….


Ambition…

Framework Year 3-4 Tools

Open – Immerse

• Spark conversation

• Set tone & direction

• Open minds

• Stimulate curiosity

• Highlight concepts

With guidance, identify

questions in familiar

contexts that can be

investigated and predict

what might happen based

on prior knowledge.

Brainstorm / mindmap

(Bubbl.us

https://bubbl.us/)

Collaborative notes

(Stixy

http://www.stixy.com/)

Video

(Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/)

Example only


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