Guided Inquiry under the Microscope School libraries making

Guided Inquiry under the Microscope School libraries making a difference: connections and collaborations Wednesday 17 September 2014 Concurrent session 11 – School Libraries Lee Fitz. Gerald Lecturer in Teacher Librarianship, Charles Sturt University School of Information Studies

What IS Guided Inquiry? A spine for inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum Photo by Paul Garland - Creative Commons Attribution-Non. Commercial-Share. Alike License http: //www. flickr. com/photos/55922094@N 00 Created with Haiku Deck School of Information Studies

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Kuhlthau, C. C. , Maniotes, L. , & Caspari, A. . (2012). Guided inquiry design: A framework for inquiry in your school. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. School of Information Studies

Does Guided Inquiry enhance learning and metacognition? School of Information Studies

What did the Guided Inquiry look like? School of Information Studies

Inquiry circles School of Information Studies

Individual student tasks and deadlines School of Information Studies

Student page on wiki School of Information Studies

Daily logs School of Information Studies

Feedback from teachers and teacher librarians School of Information Studies

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Overview source Gathering of quotes. School of Information Studies

Assessment - Product School of Information Studies

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Research instrument: Questions in the SLIM ( School Library Impact Measure) Toolkit Q 1: Take some time to think about your topic. Now write down what you know about it. Q 2: How interested are you in this topic? Not at all/Not much/Quite a bit/A great deal Q 3: How much do you know about this topic? Nothing/ Not much/Quite a bit/A great deal. Q 4: When you do research, what do you generally find easy to do? Q 5: When you do research, what do you generally find difficult to do? Q 6: What did you learn in doing this research project? School of Information Studies

Other research questions • Exit survey on inquiry itself, use of technologies (wiki/Evernote/Easybib and Webspiration), and support offered by teacher and TL. • Describe your feelings are you progressed through the stages of the Information Search process. School of Information Studies

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Q 6: Modern History School of Information Studies

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Exit survey – Ancient History School of Information Studies

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Reflections on the ISP Describe your feelings during the Information Search Process. School of Information Studies

Teacher feedback What went well? What difficulties did students experience? Did students achieve deep knowledge of their topic? What did they we and they had about their information process? Which inquiry questions were the best/ worked less well? Next time, we will. . School of Information Studies

Conclusions Does Guided Inquiry enhance learning and metacognition? http: //www. cmu. edu/teaching/principles / School of Information Studies

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How do teacher librarians meet the 7 AITSL standards? School of Information Studies

Evidence based practice Teachers have student results as evidence of the success of their teaching. We can have this too. Quite simply, by building process steps into the grading of any inquiry task. We can also use the SLIM Toolkit with an inquiry task. School of Information Studies

And along comes Critical and Creative Thinking. . . School of Information Studies

Four interrelated elements, each detailing differing aspects of thinking. Each needs to be explicitly and simultaneously developed. School of Information Studies

Alignment of CCT with ISP Document linked here School of Information Studies

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http: //inquirylearningblog. wor dpress. com/2014/05/12/inqui ry-skills-across-theaustralian-curriculum/ Omissions Misalignments School of Information Studies

Karen Bonanno Mapping curriculum skills and capabilities to an inquiry learning framework. Photo by Vermin Inc - Creative Commons Attribution-Non. Commercial-Share. Alike License http: //www. flickr. com/photos/71038389@N 00 School of Created with Haiku Deck Information Studies

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Connecting/ Collaborating/ Scaffolding. . . GUIDED INQUIRY Photo by Robbie 1 - Creative Commons Attribution License http: //www. flickr. com/photos/85278812@N 00 Created with Haiku Deck School of Information Studies