Inquiry: Annotated Bibliography

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Annotated Bibliography

Walsh, J., & Sattes, B. (2005). Quality questioning: Research-based practice to engage every learner. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press

  • The connection between quality questions and student learning and achievement is explored.
  • Tools: Classroom designs that support effective questioning.
  • Advantages of effective questioning that can transform a teacher centered classroom setting into a student-inquiry centered experience that encompasses all learners.
  • Student Learning Achievement Formation: Questioning, Thinking, and Understanding.
  • It also explores the gaps between research and practice throughout interview designed questions from researchers and practitioners.

 

Carter, M. (2010). Using ‘Learning Stories’ to strengthen teachers’ relationships with children. Exchange, Nov/Dec 2010, 40-43.

  • It addresses how documentation and interpretation help us build curriculum with children.
  • It also brings out the notion that the teacher’s additional role as a reaseracher as they accompany the student’s learning.
  • Relation between inquiry and assessment is addressed through tools of observation, documentation and interpretation.

 

Board, A. (2013). Student Engagement and Success Using an Inquiry Approach and Integrated Curriculum in Primary Education. Canadian Children, 4144.

  • discusses a project that a grade 2 teacher did in Ontario
  • The teacher posed a provocation question to her students: “What is hope?” and demonstrated how she supported the inquiry.
  • Documentation of students’ response was done throughout inquiry to assess their understanding.
  • The teacher took into consideration of student’s spectrum of readings and writing abilities, thus, various assessment forms were used. It included oral response, visual art, science journals and technology.

Rivers, Wilga M. & Johns Hopkins Univ., Washington, DC. National Foreign Language Center.  (1989).  Ten Principles of Interactive Language Learning and Teaching. NFLC Occasional Papers.  [Washington, D.C.] :  Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse

  • 10 principles of learning from second language learning can be transferred to other subject areas

 

Wien, C. A., Coates, A., Keating, B. & Bigelow, B. (2005). Designing the environment to build connection to place. Young Children, May 2005, 1- 8

  • Explores how the environment provides a context for Inquiry: the role of the outdoor environment in children’s learning.
  • Addresses how can we create spaces for learning that sustain inquiry, complexity, and creativity of thought.

 

Resources: Documents and Blogs

 

Vancouver Reggio Consortium

http://www.vancouverreggioconsortium.ca/principles-of-reggio-emilia-approach.html

http://www.brainy-child.com/article/reggioemilia.shtml

  • Brief into into Reggio approach & wonders of learning
  • Values and Principles of Reggio Emilia Approach
  • Books and Resrouces
  • Extended Professional Development opportunities

 

Universtity of Toronto Ontario Institute for Studies in Education: Showcases different educator’s perspectives on inquiry and putting it to practice (Learning and Teaching Global Matters in local classrooms)

  • https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/UserFiles/File/TEACHING_GLOBAL_MATTERS_FINAL_ONLINE.pdf

Eutopia Search: Inquiry Based Learning

  • http://www.edutopia.org/search-results?search=inquiry

Assessment Ideas for Inquiry Projects

Reggio inspirations in classrooms blog created by a teacher

  • https://thethirdteacher.wordpress.com/author/alisonboard/

http://www.teachhub.com/11-ways-make-inquiry-based-classroom

  • 11 points to take into consideration when thinking about classroom design, teacher presence, questioning, lesson designs with inquiry based learning for our students