ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson DEDUCTIVE TEACHING: Follow the leader… Deductive teaching involves the teacher being positioned as the expert, the leader, the centre of the learning. Ideas, information or rules are delivered to … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION
ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”– E. E. Cummings DIFFERENTIATION: To be yourself… Differentiation is about valuing and … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING
ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING “…and their minds were opened and their imagination’s stirred, and they saw wonderful things in their secret selves that few of them had ever dreamed of….”– River Murray Mary Colin Theile DEEPER LEARNING: Digging deeper… Deeper learning has occurred when a learner understands an idea or skill so thoroughly … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION
ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION ABC OF INQUIRY – DECONSTRUCTION “Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.” Albert Szent-Gyorgyi DECONSTRUCTION: The art of unbuilding and uncovering… Deconstruction is the taking apart of an idea or perspective to gain a richer understanding of the how and the why of something and its workings. … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – CURRICULUM
ABC OF INQUIRY – CURRICULUM ABC OF INQUIRY – CURRICULUM “As far as education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity & an indifference to money; not caution but courage & a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness & a love of truth; not … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING
ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING ABC OF INQUIRY – CONSTRUCTION “Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what was created is a physical object or some mental or emotion construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him*” Lev. S. Vygotsky (*Him is … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – CURIOSITY
ABC OF INQUIRY – CURIOSITY ABC OF INQUIRY – CURIOSITY “I dream of things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?” George Bernard Shaw. Curiosity is about having the ability to notice what is visible and not visible and wonder why or why not. CURIOSITY “ I wonder wonder why…” George Bernard Shaw summed up curiosity perfectly when he … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – CONCEPTS
ABC OF INQUIRY – CONCEPTS ABC OF INQUIRY – CONCEPTS “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.”Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosopher. Concepts allow us to glimpse ideas that travel across time, space and place. CONCEPTS: Once upon time, in a place… Concepts are big ideas that go beyond the specifics of a particular time, place or topic. The ideas … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – COMMUNITIES
ABC OF INQUIRY – COMMUNITIES ABC OF INQUIRY – COMMUNITIES “Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se”. Charles Eames Charles and Ray Eames are influential designers, who saw that connections with spaces, people and ideas influenced all. Communities are formed and developed on the strength of their connections, … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – COMFORT ZONE
ABC OF INQUIRY – COMFORT ZONE ABC of Inquiry- COMFORT ZONE “I hope in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something” Neil Gamain’s words … Read More