OPS+Owairoa+Primary's+Inquiry+Model

__ Trevor Bond visit __

Inquiry Model Trevor visited on 31/8/10 as part of the ICT cluster funding and goals. He spent an afternoon with the Team Leaders firstly listening to where each Team was at (see team notes).

He then drew together the ideas they had put forward and discussed the requirements of the NZC under the following headings: Goals, Vision, Learning model, Curriculum.

On discussion it was decided the goal for Owairoa was to: Empower the children as learners. The learning model: to be task orientated- quality tasks Choose a concept and then break the outline into 8 categories – the concepts will be from Social Studies, Science and Technology. Key understandings- these will be coded back to the strand. Suggested over a three year period have a minimum of one from each. Model should take you from no/or limited knowledge to understanding /application.

__ Suggested model: __ 1. Explore and understand the task, identify contextual vocabulary 2. Identify needs to develop the questions- make full sentence statements for each need and turn them into questions 3. Choose an appropriate source. Find answers. Validate answers. 4. Apply/ use/ trial to solve or complete the task 5. Sharing – outcome/ decisions/justification 6. Evaluating- product and the process

Trevor will be spending a whole day with the leaders on November 23rd to re discuss and clarify, and make a model unit.