This document provides an agenda for a class on inquiry and questioning. It includes discussions on professional learning conversations, the Ontario curriculum for language, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and models for inquiry questions. Students are asked to explore educational resources for the following week and post to an online forum. Critical thinking skills and 21st century competencies like curiosity are emphasized as important for inquiry-based learning.

1. Week 2
Inquiry/Questioning
EDBE 8P24
2017-2018

2. Agenda
• Professional Learning Conversations
• Ontario Curriculum: Language
• TRC – What is it? Why does it matter?
• Inquiry Questions:
– KWL
– KWHLAQ
– Questioning/ Inquiry in 21C classrooms
• For next week: Explore Resources

3. Professional Learning Conversations
• PLCs will be led by the Literacy Leader
• Literacy Leader posts summary to Drop Box by
the end of today
• Literacy Leaders for Week 3 meet with Ruth at
end of class

4. Questions to consider for critical
understanding
• Who created this resource?
• For what purpose was it created?
• Is the information accurate and believable?
• What does the author want you to think?
• Whose voices are missing, silenced, or discounted?
• How does it help you think about social issues and
justice?

5. Critical Literacy…
• All texts are constructions
• All texts contain belief and value messages
• Each person interprets messages differently
• Texts serve different interests
• Each medium develops its own “language” in order to position
readers/viewers in certain ways

6. Author Event
• Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis, author of “I Am Not a
Number” is speaking at the Burlington Public
Library on Monday, September 25, from 6:30-
8:30 pm.
• For more information, go to this link:
https://www.bpl.on.ca/feature/honouring-
truth#speakers

7. The Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 -
Language
• http://www.edu.g
ov.on.ca/eng/curr
iculum/elementar
y/language18curr
b.pdf
• Launched in 2006

8. Ontario Curriculum – Language 1-8
• Oral Communication
• 1.
• 2.
• Media Studies
• 1.
• 2.
• Reading
• 1.
• 2.
• Writing
• 1.
• 2.

9. Curriculum expectations are
mandatory.
Overall expectations
• Describe in general terms
the knowledge and skills
students are expected to
achieve by the end of each
grade
Specific expectations
• Describe the expected
knowledge and skills in
greater detail often with
specific examples
9

11. Aboriginal children at Fort Simpson Indian Residential
School in 1922
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/02/the-truth-and-
reconciliation-commission-report.html
J.F. Moran/Library & Archive

12. Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report
Ottawa, June 2, 2015

15. INQUIRY
KWHLAQ
Know
Want to know
How to find it
Learned
Action
Questions

16. 21st Century Competencies
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity and Innovation

17. Curiosity: The 5th C in 21st Century
Learning
• Proposed by Andrew Minigan in “The
Importance of Curiosity and Questions in 21C
Learning” Education Week, May 24, 2017
• Curiosity: Importance of students asking
questions
• Supports the other 4 Cs and adds engagement
and empowerment

19. Finding Your Question
Access the PDF of this resource by going to:
https://inquiryninja.com/brock/
The link will take you to a keynote address by the
author. You will be asked to share your name and
email address and be willing to be notified when the
“Finding Your Question” video course is available.
Then you will be allowed to download the pdf of the
book.

20. Explore Resources
• Go to Sakai: Week 3 – Sept. 18
• Explore Resources: Educational Blogs
– read very carefully and follow directions
– Post to Forum by midnight Saturday, Sept. 16.

21. The 3 Ws
What? Why? What now?