Inquiry Learning

A series of staff meetings were recently held to explore Inquiry Learning and the draft Social Science curriculum document.
Bucklands Beach Intermediate School have looked at many exisiting inquiry models and developed a model for Inquiry that the staff are now trialing in the classroom. The emphasis is on student choice and students taking control of their own learning in an authentic context.
Follow this link the the Bucklands Beach ICTPD cluster wiki to download powerpoint presentations that examine the big idea of inquiry and what it means, and a break down of the Bucklands Beach Intermediate Inquiry model in detail.

Digital Storytelling

Many teachers in our cluster are currently using digital storytelling in their classroom programmes. These are used in a variety of different ways from exploring narratives, writing reflections, or as a glimpse of their learning in e-portfolios.
Staff pd in making digital stories has taken place in several schools, all using many different programmes and platforms to create them.
Digital storytelling allows students to develop their research skills in finding rich and deep content, to synthesise that content, to develop communication skills, to organise ideas, to ask questions, to express opinions , to construct narrativesand to write for a real audience. WOW!!
Go to our cluster wiki and download the powerpoint to answer questions on what and why.

Digital Learning Centres

On Thursday, Justine Driver presented her Digital Learning Centres to our cluster members - approx 100+. Justine is AP at a school in our cluster, and she has presented at many conferences, including Tuanz and Learning at School this year.
Her Digital Learning Centres received positive comments from a ERO a few weeks ago.
Made in Powerpoint, these valuable, yet simple to make, centres can enhance and extend the learning.
Examples of Justines learning centres are available on her wiki - linked here through our cluster wiki.
Thanks Justine for sharing the knowledge and enthusiasm.