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‘Quiet Think’ Questions: Agree or disagree?
1. The teacher is the most important person in the classroom
2. My job is to pass on all my knowledge to my students
3. I teach in the way that I was taught
4. Learning is a teacher-driven activity
5. As teacher, I am the main focus of attention
6. I know how all my students learn best
7. It’s more comfortable repeating lessons taught previously
8. ‘Handing over’ to the students is common in my lessons
9. All of my students are stretched during lessons
10. I probably work harder in my lessons than my students!
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Marhaba!
Enquiry-based Learning
Round-robin workshops28th August 2013
Colin Bibby
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Volunteers needed, please…
3 per table: you have 15 seconds to agree only
Those volunteering (or being ‘volunteered’!), please stand up…
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Learning ObjectivesTo: consider a simple definition/explanation look at our own roles within the classroom identify a ‘spectrum’ of teaching appreciate why enquiry-based learning is so successful
Success CriteriaBy the end of this session we will have all be in a position to understand why moving along the ‘spectrum’ is beneficial for teaching & learning
PHEW !...
Strategic Development Plan Six Domains of Learning for Departmental Focus:
1. Assessment for Learning2. Challenging our students3. Differentiation4. Enquiry-based learning5. Learning to learn / independent learning6. Improved questioning techniques
Challenge (and risk taking) highlighted by this year’s KHDA report.
Others to be covered by other workshops today and by our In-House CPD workshop programme (details to follow).
This is not new…
Resilient, independent learners who have flexible skills and competencies; who can work well in teams and lead themselves and others to perform up to
and even beyond their potential.*
WANTED… ...after 16 years of education
*CBI - Confederation of British Industry, Annual Report, 2009
‘Spoon-fed students can’t cope with degrees’ - Daily Telegraph
The illiterate of the 21st century are those that don’t know how to learn
50% of employers are worried about literacy and numeracy;
70% are worried about the lack of emotional intelligence
Addicted to praise and wafer-thin
confidence (Dweck)
Headlines
Who does what in your lessons?..
Who……chooses the topic?…selects the activities?…prepares the materials?…do the students speak to mostly?…and look at during class time?
Who does what in your lessons?
Who……chooses the seating arrangements? …picks group members?…operates the equipment?...gives the instructions …and explanations?
Who does what in your lessons?
Who……asks questions?…responds to questions?…and gives feedback?…writes on the board?…answers questions asked by the students?
Key Question to reflect upon: Could you do more to give your students (even) more teaching & learning responsibility?
“The traditional education system is obsolete”
Bill Gates, 1996(that’s nearly 20 years ago…)
Times are changing fast…
… and we must all be ready to change with them.
“SHIFT HAPPENS 2013”
http://vimeo.com/58839986
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Enquiry-based Learning
Quick pairs discussion task
a one sentence explanation/definition
Inquiry Levels Enquiry-based learning…
“Enquiry is something that students do. Not something that is done to them.” (Vos 2007)
Inquiry Levels
Enquiry-based learning: one explanationEnquiry based learning puts more responsibility on the pupils for their own learning. It involves them in more decision-making processes; they learn by doing, rather than just by listening and studying theoretical things which are often not in context and therefore ‘unreal’ to them.
As learning becomes more active it becomes more understandable and easier to retain. As learning is personalised and relevant to the students’ own lives and experiences, it comes ‘alive’.
This is not new. Many of our teaching methods are already student-centred but, as the world around us continues to change, enquiry-based learning becomes more important than ever before. Rogers 2008
Is yours more a passive or active
classroom?
“This is not new…”
Teacher or Student-Centred teaching?
Teacher-centred
What’s the difference?
Table discussion: list some of the key differences between teacher and student centred teaching
Student-centred
Teacher or Student-Centred?
Teacher-centred
Instructing…“Sage on the stage”
Didactic: teacher instructs
Teacher talks, students listen‘Safety, comfort zone’ teachingTeacher-only reviews
Low level of student choice
Students often passive
Classroom is quiet
Decisions with teacher
Student-centred
Teacher or Student-Centred?
Teacher-centred Student-centred
Facilitating…“Guide on the side”Active, experiential learningCreative opportunitiesMore risks success & failure occurs Peer and students self-review
More curiosity, choice, challenge
Student activeClassroom has ‘busy hum’
Decisions involve the student
Where do you fit on this ‘spectrum’?
Teacher-centred
Instructing…“Sage on the stage”
Didactic: teacher instructs
Teacher talk, students listen‘Safe, comfort zone’ teaching Teacher only reviews
Low level of student choice
Student passive
Classroom is quiet
Decisions with teacher
Student-centred
Facilitating…“Guide on the side”Active, experiential learningCreative opportunitiesMore risks - success & failure occurs Peer & student self-reviewMore curiosity, choice, challengeStudent activeClassroom has ‘busy hum’Decisions involve the student
How can you move (even) more to the right of this spectrum?
Back to Confucius…
Successful teachers of enquiry-based learning are those who become progressively more redundant (yes!)...
…because the students are working harder than you and are relying less and less on you.
And it’s all to your longer-term benefit!...
Why does this matter?Robust research by the 21st Century Learning Initiative concludes that school leavers need to be:
• Flexible learners• Team players• Independent thinkers• Confident individuals• Creative and innovative
And concludes that…Schools need to “provide learners both with a platform for employability in the 21st century and with lifelong learning capabilities.”
(www.21learn.org/)
Thank you for participating...Any comments or questions, please?
