"Ethnography helped us ask critical questions about supervision, classroom observations, lesson plans, reflections, interviews, data collection, and case studies" (Frank, 2)
In order to fully embrace inquiry learning, I plan to approach my classroom observations with an inquiry based model of ethnographic observations. I will become a learner in the classrooms, rather than simply an observer. My questions, observations, and inferences will help to grow and develop my own understanding of inquiry in the classroom and increase my own experience with the learning model.
What to look for?
- patterns and routines that impact the learning community
- student's role, and how it changes with the topic, lesson, and time
- teacher's role, how and when questions are asked to further student learning
- "suspend judgement" in order to take in authentic information from both student and teacher
- environmental factors that allow for inquiry to occur
Dewey's Suggestions... (177)
Serving as a rubric for my own observations and inferences
"It is organized as a social community; children are learning in the active setting of a miniature community"
"The social significance of subject matter is brought out in instruction"
"Children are involved in solving real problems, past and present. The subjects in the curriculum are integrated in the way that they work and are synthesized in the real world"
"Teachers confer frequently, informally and formally"
"Children are free to move around the room and seek help from others"
"The school takes advantage of cultural and educational institutions in the community to enrich the curriculum and children's lives"
"The children are happy"
No comments:
Post a Comment