Inquiry One-Pager | MOVED Middle Years Blog

Today’s lesson had two parts. I’ll break it all down below:

Analyzing the Inquiry Project Criteria

We used the Jigsaw strategy to consider the 4 criteria – taken from the IP Rubric – on which the written component of your IP will be assessed. Here’s the handout with the rubric:

EDUC 310 Inquiry Project Rubric

Refining Your Inquiry Question

Using the exercises in the handout below:

Developing and Refining Your Inquiry Project Question

you took some time to thoughtfully consider your inquiry question and craft it into a final, “I’m going to have a go with this question” draft.

5-Minute Inquiry Project Question Mini-Conferences

Dave and I want to check for understanding before you get started on your researching and writing journey so, to that end, we will be holding short conferences to review and sign off on your questions and action plan. These meetings will take place instead of our regularly scheduled class. Here are the schedules for those meetings:

Dave’s Schedule

Lawrence’s Schedule

For this meeting you MUST bring a final draft of your Inquiry Project One-Pager. That’s the same document you posted on Vista before the Christmas Break. The file is below for easy reference:

EDUC 310 Inquiry Project One-Pager

That’s all for today.

Stay warm,

– Lawrence

Inquiry One-Pager

We’ve spent a lot of time this term considering the nature of inquiry and the shape of powerful inquiry questions. At long last the time has come for you to make a tentative commitment to a question and jot down some ideas about it. The vehicle for this exercise is the Inquiry Project One-Pager. Here’s the handout:

EDUC 310 Inquiry Project One-Pager

Once you’ve completed the four questions on this sheet, please cut your writing and paste it into a post on the Initial Inquiry Questions section of our EDUC 310 VISTA site.

Dave and I realize that your question will evolve over time – most likely in response to your experiences on your 2-week prac. That said we’re looking for a general sense of the direction your inquiry might take at this stage in the game. Your one-pager is to be posted on EDUC 310 VISTA site by Wednesday, 30 November 2011.

Administriiva

EDUC 315 TC Feedback Form: Please complete this form (found in the Get Yer Forms! post below) and submit it to your FA by Friday, 25 November 2011.
SRL Consent Forms: Please complete this form and submit it to your FA by Monday, 28 November 2011.
LLED 320 Timetable: We agreed to shift the time of our LLED 320 class. Thanks for your input.
LLED 320 Writing Samples: I asked you to grab 4 or 5 samples of student writing that you can use for a writing assessment task in LLED 320 class. The best pieces for this task are paragraphs, essays, poems, short stories, or any other piece that involves students writing half a page or more. Please gather these samples from work you do on your 2-week prac or from work your SA does (of has done). Please bring these pieces to our first LLED 320 class in the third week of January 2012.

Unit Planning

After showing you the UBD unit planning template (also in the Get Yer Forms! post below) and reminding you that your draft unit plan and full lesson plans for the first two lessons must be submitted by email to your SA and FA by Monday, 5 December 2011, I spent some time presenting a slideshow on assessment. Here’s that PPT slideshow:

UBD Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence: November 2011

And here’s the video clip I showed to wrap my presentation that speaks to the anonymity of standardized testing:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfuniN0Sdg[/youtube]

See you on Monday.

– LH