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Understanding Teaching as Inquiry

Understanding Teaching as Inquiry. Principles of Teaching, Session 2 Anne Phelan. Session Outline . HOW ARE THINGS GOING?. Guiding Questions FOR THIS WEEK. •What is inquiry? •What is teacher inquiry? •What has inquiry got to do with teaching, learning and curriculum?. 1. What is inquiry?.

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Understanding Teaching as Inquiry

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  1. Understanding Teaching as Inquiry Principles of Teaching, Session 2 Anne Phelan

  2. Session Outline

  3. HOW ARE THINGS GOING?

  4. Guiding Questions FOR THIS WEEK • •What is inquiry? • •What is teacher inquiry? • •What has inquiry got to do with teaching, learning and curriculum?

  5. 1. What is inquiry? • Read description of the “Coyote Project” • What qualities of inquiry are evident? • In light of this discussion, how might we understand inquiry?

  6. Qualities of inquiry • BRAINSTORM

  7. Qualities of inquiry • Questioning? • Critical? • Political? • Objective/subjective? • Public/private? • Aims? Role? • Sense of purpose ‘Ruthless pursuit of intentionality’ (Dewey)? • Rationale? • Requiring judgment? • Involving perspectives?

  8. TEACHING AND INQUIRY

  9. Discussion • What struck you? • What issues/questions/themes did it provoke? • How might you approach these issues with teacher candidates?

  10. Reflective Practice AS: • Caring • Constructivist • Problem-solving • Henderson, Chapter 1

  11. Educational Problem-solving • Academic • Empirical • Intuitive • Historically-aware • Henderson, Chapter 4

  12. ISSUES, QUESTIONS, THEMES EMERGING PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES IMAGINED?

  13. Educational Problem-solving • Academic • Empirical • Intuitive • Historically-aware • Which do you relate to more? • Which sponsor teacher would you learn most from? • Are these approaches mutually exclusive?

  14. Some additional thoughts

  15. UNDERSTANDING INQUIRY AS: • CULTURAL OBEJCT • PERSONAL EXPERIENCE • EVENT OR TRANSACTION

  16. Inquiry as cultural object • Inquiry as cultural object • Government inquiry • Disciplinary inquiry • Reflecting on teacher candidates’ disciplines • Media (TV, newspapers) inquiry • Professional inquiry (what physicians do?) • Personal inquiry • Internet and inquiry • Qualities of inquiry • Questioning? • Critical? • ‘Ruthless pursuit of intentionality’ (Dewey)? • Political? • Objective/subjective? • Public/private? • Aims? Role? • Sense of purpose • Rationale?

  17. A personal experience of inquiry • Within the teacher candidate’s own discipline? • As a result of a personal interest or pastime? • Resulting from a need? • Other? • Exploring the nature of inquiry in their disciplinary area enables a conversation about: • Role of inquiry • Qualities of inquiry • Problems associated with inquiry

  18. Inquiry as Event/Transaction • What is teacher inquiry? • IMAGINING the role of inquiry in teaching • Where do teachers inquire? • What do they inquire about? • Why? • What are some similarities and differences between teacher inquiry and other forms of inquiry?

  19. Moral Complexity of TEACHING • …[s]he had to decide what to do to focus on worthwhile achievement…to decide how to communicate the idea that respect for evidence, clarity and ‘elegance’ matters…to choose in individual cases, whether to permit free, creative activity in place of required tasks…to decide whether to nurture sensitivity at certain points instead of encouraging cognitive action…how much to allow for personal idiosyncrasy…or should adjust the demands of the clock or the schedule to the rhythm of a child’s inner timer…multiple small uncertainties about whom to call on, whom to discipline, whom to reward…to give reasons…to persuade others that [s]he is making sense…. (Maxine Greene)

  20. TEACHING AS Inquiry • "a space in which questions arise about what is good or bad, what is worth doing and what not, what has meaning and importance … and what is trivial and secondary" (Taylor, 1989, 28). • ..Good judgment…is not a matter of objective knowledge or of subjective opinion, but a result of intersubjectivity; becoming a good judge depends largely on one’s capacity to consider other viewpoints of the same experience (Coulter & Wiens, 2002, p. 17).

  21. Exploring Teacher Inquiry • Shamsher, M., Decker, E., & Leggo, C. (2003). Teacher Research in the Backyard: Kitimat-Terrace Teacher Research. British Columbia Teachers’ Federation. [Select Article of Interest] • Networks: An online journal of teacher research http://journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/networks/ (Students Select Article of Interest) • Brandes, G., & Kelly, D. (Eds.). (2004). Special issue: Notes from the field: Teaching for social justice. Educational Insights, 8(3). • Aguilar, E. ( Accessed 2009 ). An East Oakland Odyssey: Exploring the Love of Reading in a Small School. http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/insideteaching/quest/collections.html • A. Clarke & G. Erickson (Eds.). Teacher Inquiry: Living the Research in Everyday Practice. London, UK: RoutledgeFalmer.

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