Through the inquiry learning process I aim to provide children with practical experience and knowledge to apply within their own context. This in turn, enables children to develop a personal, community, national and global identity as they learn to be active citizens in their community (Board of Studies, 2006). Also this process, I aim to build each student’s skills which can also be transferred to future learning projects and other subjects. These skills form a basis to life skills that can be applied in future learning opportunities. As a teacher it is my responsibility to support and foster the skills so children can build on them and feel more confident applying them to other contexts.
- Information processing= finding, sorting, evaluating and analysing information
- Critical and Creative= Analysing information to find different viewpoints, validity and reliability and applying it in different ways
- Communicating= using multiple ways to combine information and show others
- Reflective and metacognitive= monitoring progress/evaluating final product and solving problems
Through the process of inquiry learning, I want each student to understand and apply the content of HSIE within their social and community context. Children should be:
- guided to learn from their own knowledge base- developing this knowledge further through the use of challenging, in-depth questions
- Engaged in meaningful field based activities- they can learn from actual people and places to take their knowledge to a more practical area
- Guided to learn about the future- students should think further than ‘what is’ to ‘what will happen’, analysing the effects/impacts/possibilities on the future
- Using the information learnt to determine how it affects them- making responsible decisions as active citizens in social, economic, religious, civic and environmental issues.
- Empathising with others and embracing the diverse society and cultures
(Board of Studies, 2006)
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