Inquiry and science

I have just seen a post on BH's blog about an inquiry classroom. I am going to work hard in 2011 from term 3 to have a classroom like that. I will collect all sorts of interesting goodies to have in my inquiry room.

10.10.10

I finally posted my surfer photo and had a look at a few of the brillant photos. I see Helen Clark has taken part.I really need to take better photos. I tried to set up a wiki for my fellowship work but ran into problems with my first photo. I will ask for help.

Inquiry and science

I am looking forward to 2011 and after my science fellowship time I will be releasing teachers so I will have a different class each day. I want to make sure I combine science and inquiry. I have just been on Bruce's
http://leading-learning.blogspot.com and reading his wisdom about inquiry. I think we sometimes try and make it too complicated. I am looking forward to setting up my room for this type of learning.

Inquiry

My brother is a DP at a high school and he told me that their year 9's are going to be learning through inquiry next year.He sounds really excited about it and although its come from what is in the NZC he also said he saw how excited his own 3 primary school children were about their own learning and wanted their pupils (and staff) to be as excited about their learning. When he said that for social studies y9's had done Ancient Egypt for 'ever' and what relevance did that have for their kids and community I could hear LW's words about making learning rich, real and RELEVANT. I am going to have lots of chats with my brother to see how it is going.

End of an Era

I have put Mum's house on the market. I felt really sad when I saw the sign up yesterday but its time to let it go.

2011

I still have a job at our school but it is a sad place at the moment. While I am relieved to have a job I really feel for the 3 who missed out. I really thought I was out.
My science Fellowship is on track and my first electronic ticket for 28 Jan 2011 came through yesterday. Its for a day in Wellington.
We all have to put a couple of 'slides' together for the Owhata section of the next cluster share. I could not go past my Science Fellowship for this sharing.

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