Planning for inquiry learning

Project management for learning

Audience: Science teachers Years 3 - 12

Learn to design teaching/learning programs that engage and empower students through inquiry-based learning.
Presented is programming through the 5Es inquiry-based pedagogy advocated by NESA. It is fundamentally based on the developmental constructivist ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky but has direct antecedents in the work of Australians Peter Fensham, Roger Osbourne and Dick Gunstone, and in the UK the work of Rosalind Driver.
A striking aspect of the model is the integration of assessment in all its forms as a driver of learning.

Course Curriculum

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Module 1: Investigations in the new syllabuses
- Investigations in the new syllabuses
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Module 7: A model program for inquiry
- Program development
- Sample programs
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Module 8: Program development
- Program development
- Reflection

About the instructor

Curriculum and assessment advisor

Jim Sturgiss

Jim is an educational researcher and independent educational consultant. A recipient of the NSW PTC Distinguished Service Award for leadership in delivering targeted professional learning to teachers, he works with schools to align assessment, reporting and learning practice. He has been a DoE Senior Assessment Advisor where he developed many statewide assessments, (ESSA, SNAP, ELLA, BST) and as Coordinator: Analytics where he developed reports to schools for statewide assessments and NAPLAN.