Workshop VIC (201)
Workshop VIC (201)
Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning:
a workshop for teachers who want to help students investigate their interests and passions!
Target audience: Foundation - year 8 teachers
Presented by Kath Murdoch
“Whatever your circumstances, you need to find time to be in your element - to do what gives you energy rather than what takes it from you.” Ken Robinson, 2013
There has been growing interest in ‘personalised learning’ for many years now. Increasingly, schools are making arrangements to provide more opportunities for learners to learn to be self-directed and to have their needs and interests met through the curriculum. An inquiry-based approach is in itself, an approach that recognizes the importance of learner voice and choice and of linking new learning to the existing knowledge, experiences and interests of the learner. In this sense, inquiry has always been an approach that nurtured learner agency but this can be amplified when learners can pursue the questions, interests, problems and wonders that matter to them.
Teachers who use an inquiry based approach are committed to helping learners ‘learn to learn’ and to equipping them with the skills and dispositions to more independently investigate questions, problems, issues and interests. But what opportunities do we give learners to do this both within and beyond the “units of inquiry” we may develop? How can we enhance our inquiry program so learners have real opportunities to follow their passions and to truly inquire into those things that matter to them? And why is this so important? This workshop is all about supporting learners to design, pursue and assess their own journeys of inquiry and how these pathways sit alongside collaborative inquiries where learners are building understanding through shared investigations. . Teachers will leave the workshop having considered ways to design their own approach to personalizing the inquiry experience for learners.
We will explore the following questions with practical tasks and lots of recent examples from classrooms:
Why is personal inquiry important? What’s our purpose?
What does ‘personal inquiry’ look like as learners move through the school?
How can we help learners identify their interests? How can we inspire wonderment and curiosity?
How can we help learners design effective questions for their investigations?
How might opportunities for personal inquiry be structured differently for different age groups?
How can we make sure personal inquiry time is not simply “doing projects” or ‘free play’? How do we help learners challenge themselves and go beyond the known?
What skills and dispositions do learners need to make this work? How can we teach these?
How can we make this manageable? What systems and routines and classroom set ups make it work?
How can we make links across the curriculum through personal inquiry?
This workshop would best suit teachers who already have some understanding of inquiry and are using this approach in some form in their school. I would also recommend you come with at least one other colleague so you can collaborate on an action plan for your return to school.
When and Where
When: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Where: Melbourne, Carlton
Venue: The Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson Street
Carlton VIC 3054
Fees
1 or 2 people from the same school $325 + $32.50 GST per person
3 or more people from the same school $300 + $30 GST per person
Cancellation
In the event the workshop is cancelled, registration fees will be fully refunded.
Fees will be fully refunded when participants cancel 8 days or more prior to the workshop.
No refund will be issued when participants fail to attend or cancel 7 days or less prior to the workshop.
Workshop Book Discount Offer
Participants have the opportunity to purchase The Power of Inquiry with a $5.00 (ex gst) per book discount. In addition to the book discount no shipping costs will be incurred as purchased books will be collected at the Workshop. Purchasing details are provided on the Registration Form.
Contact
Please email Fiona at seastar@netspace.net.au if you have any issues with this product.
Registration
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