Today I was reading Coby Beatson's article in the latest Teacher Learning Network Journal called "Connecting with Inquiry".Coby is an advocate of Inquiry based learning and believes that it allows a classroom to cater for all students. A well constructed Inquiry gives students ownership of their learning, focussing on skills such as how to question,categorise,analyse and intrepret. Although she is of the opinion that our current emphasis on teaching content needs to shift to teaching skills, she has adopted a "Singapore time fraction" approach - 80% spent on covering the curriculum and 20% spent on letting students discover anything they wanted to know about the topic they were studying.I must admit I hadn't heard of this approach. Funnily enough I came across this article from Edudemic later in the day called 10 Reasons To Try 20% Time In The Classroom. Now that is a co-incidence!
For more information, read Coby Beatson's article in the latest TLN.Copies are in the staffroom
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