Mapping curriculum skills and capabilities to an inquiry learning framework

Mapping curriculum skills and
capabilities to an
inquiry learning framework
Karen Bonanno
Founder & Managing Director
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What is inquiry learning?
• Inquiry-based learning is a constructivist approach
• Students have ownership of their learning
• Starts with exploration and questioning and leads to
investigation into a worthy question, issue, problem
or idea.
• Involves asking questions, gathering and analysing
information, generating solutions, making decisions,
justifying conclusions and taking action.
http://www.inquiringmind.co.nz/WhatIsInquiry.htm

Why inquiry?
• Students are at some stage of progression along a
continuum that starts at teacher directed units, includes
negotiated units through to student driven learning.
• Students are actively supported and scaffolded by teachers
in the acquisition of relevant skills.
• Students are engaged in learning.
• Students deepen or gain understanding of core concepts
relevant to the context.
• Students work collaboratively in small groups.
http://ictnz.com/Inquiry%20Learning/inquirydefinition.htm

Why inquiry?
• Students use and apply the information then share their
solutions, decisions, thinking and outcomes in a celebration
of understanding. They are not involved in a process of
shifting and sharing information.
• Students will access a range of information sources.
• Students predicate their work on prior knowledge.
• Students will be actively engaged in asking and following up
on questions as a central skill.
http://ictnz.com/Inquiry%20Learning/inquirydefinition.htm

Different frameworks
“Big 6” - Eisenberg
Information skills (NSW Dept. of Ed.)
Model of inquiry – Stripling
PLUS model – Herring
McKenzie – Research Cycle
Guided Inquiry Design – Kuhlthau et al

Kuhlthau, CC et al (2012) Guided Inquiry Design: A
Framework for Inquiry in Your School, Libraries
Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California, p. 31.
• Catch attention
• Build background
knowledge
• Explore ideas
• Articulate inquiry
question
• Capture the information
• What learned
• Reflect

The dynamic combination
Kuhlthau, CC et al (2012) Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, Libraries Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California.

ATC21s skills
Ways of thinking
1. Creativity & innovation
2. Critical thinking, problem
solving, decision making
3. Learning to learn,
metacognition
Ways of working
4. Communication
5. Collaboration (teamwork)
Tools for working
6. Information literacy
7. ICT literacy
Living in the world
8. Citizenship – local and
global
9. Life and career
10. Personal & social
responsibility – including
cultural awareness &
competence
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Binkley M et al 2012 ‘Defining twenty-first century skills’, in Griffin,
P McGaw, B & Care E (eds.), Assessment and teaching of 21st
century skills, Springet, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 18-19.

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/History/Curriculum/F-10
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/History/Content-structure

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Association Inc.
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Overview/General-capabilities-in-the-
Australian-Curriculum

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/
Critical-and-creative-thinking/Continuum#page=2

Work in progress 1
Stage 1 (current)
• Identify specific skills in a curriculum /
capability area
• Map these skills to inquiry framework
• Add subject or general capability identifier
[Note: As curriculum areas are developed this
will feed into the framework, e.g. Geography]

Work in progress 2 & 3
Stage 2
• Identify the common language in each section
• Reconstruct
Stage 3
• Publish under Creative Commons – Share,
comment, add to ….

Ambition…
Framework Year 3-4 Tools
Open – Immerse
• Spark conversation
• Set tone & direction
• Open minds
• Stimulate curiosity
• Highlight concepts
With guidance, identify
questions in familiar
contexts that can be
investigated and predict
what might happen based
on prior knowledge.
Brainstorm / mindmap
(Bubbl.us
https://bubbl.us/)
Collaborative notes
(Stixy
http://www.stixy.com/)
Video
(Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/)
Example only

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comment?
karen@eduwebinar.com.au

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