Friday, June 11, 2010

Making it Matter Through the Power of Inquiry

Creativity.  I think this is the key word for this chapter.  Students perform better and have greater self-efficacy when we foster their creativity.  I loved having the inquiry based broad questions and then allowing students to discover the learning associated with the question.  The question I have is how do you develop the inquiry questions?  We are so stuck in standards and GLE's that I am not sure how to step back from that and find the big question.  I want to know how to do this.  I want this kind of learning in my classroom.  Partnering inquiry with multi-genre writing, student blogs and goal setting would be the ideal classroom set up.  The problem is, I need the support.  I need a mentor. 

I need to use creative problem solving to figure this out--to find my flow.  Anyone have ideas on how to do this in your classroom?

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