The Four aspects of Inquiry Learning

1. Relationships
• Know your students
• Students finding out about each other
• Students valued for who they are
• “Do you know me well enough to teach me?”
• Respectful connections: student/student, student/teacher
• Vital in order for students to take risks and colborate
• Becomes the fabric of an effectively functioning classroom
2. Student Voice & Choice
• Students involved in decision making around their learning
• Students co-constructing learning
• Different options are provided for learners and their learning
• Rich learning conversations with prompts for deeper thinking
• Listening/responding/conferring/prompting
• Inclusion of ‘passion’ type projects directly related to student curiosities
• Student voice/choice is deliberately planned for, regular and authentic
3. Learning what they are learning
• Visible student goal setting and action plans
• Clear learning intentions and success criteria
• Rich in the characteristics of the Key Competencies
• Looks like: participation, planned, focused, reflective, open minded, questioning,note making/taking, making connections to known/unknown
4. Provoking curiosity
• Using objects/resources that provoke curiosity and trigger further learning: fascinating images, compelling texts
• Deliberate questioning: What are you wondering about? What are you curious about?
• Making use of any opportunity to ask and answer questions
• Planned opportunities to model and record curiosities
• Planned opportunities to reinforce processes, follow-up actions and how to’s