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Great questioning rubric. It is interesting to look at this when assessing children's questions. J9

Some key items for me were;: 1. The 6 Characteristics of Guided Inquiry 2. The key elements of being active, engaged, curious, and questioning 3.Information Literacy Standrads were also well worth the read, particularly the fact that for the children, assessment would be alrgely reflective. Good rubrics available for this. 4. Section I liked also was the " Learning Environment For Guided Inquiry. I believe this applies in any effective classroom practice KTB

TheTopics were interesting. It seems very real local issues are quite popular. I would like to see the reults of the brainstorming with the children.KTB Re: the questioning--at Conference the questioining session was the besty. The rubric shows levels of questioning skills. I am very keen to develop this in our school, as inquiry is based on questioning but it must be effective questioning. KTB

I hereby apologise for all my typos--my eyes are very dodgy KTB

I am trying to go on this page still learning hope this works. I read the readings and local and environment are popular. Interesting one about the hens!!!!. Farming community might understand better as I am a towny. However, I did like the idea about the playground. I also understand how it has to be teacher driven first but I think the kids will grasp the idea from Miss Rm8

The more that I read about Inquiry the more it seems linked to the "Action Learning" model of the mid 90's. Though the action learning model probably leaned more toward directed inquiry. Halina

J9 has helped me access this page. Bethley She has also helped me to get onto this page. Fantastic! According to the professional reading subsumption/subsumtion is a very interesting word that needs further inquiry.

As you say Halina - very much like the Action Learning Cycle of the 90's. I guess the wheel has been reinvented with a slight change of semantics. Action Learning was only directed inquiry if this was how the teacher chose to lead it. There was child directed action learning - however this was difficult with very young children as they did not have the skills to use their researched information. Maybe as a school we should settle on six or seven steps with the same labels used throughout the school so there is uniformity in the language used by the children. This should help as children move through the school and we are all talking the same speak. This was something Halina and I saw in our visits to schools - especially at Opiki School. They used - 1) Motivation and Teaching, 2) Wondering, 3) Finding, 4) Using, 5) Recording, 6) Presenting, 7) Evaluating - with Curiosity at the very beginning and Understanding at the very end. Worth considering? Ann.

I found the topic page interesting. We could all add to this as we get a brainwave and then we have an ongoing record which may lead us to our next inquiry.