What Are We Driving At?
Inquiry Questions from PBL & CBL
Ian Hoke MAT, MEd
Secondary School Principal - AIS Mozambique
@ianhoke
Resources at: https://tinyurl.com/1td1vxot
Agenda
What is inquiry?
What is Project-Based Learning?
Why Project-Based Learning?
Why Project-Based Learning?
What is Concept Based Curriculum?
Concept-based curriculum is designed for student-centered inquiry, facilitating “synergistic” thinking by connecting rich, relevant, rigorous content to important, key concepts within and between disciplines.
A driving consideration of concept-based curriculum & instruction is facilitating deeper learning and transfer, which may be viewed as the application of skills and content knowledge across contexts.
Why Concept Based Curriculum & Instruction?
Ormrod, 2014
Caveat!
Let’s Begin (at the end)
blucolt [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; Cropped
What is a Concept?
Identify a Potential Conceptual Lens
Unit Web - A Brainstorming Move
"Brainstorm" by Andy Mangold is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Choose a Conceptual Lens
Math - Scale, Derivatives, Location, Relationships
Science - Structure, Motion, Transformation
Language Arts - Conflict, Structure, Intention
Arts - Audience, Scale, Color, Perspective
PE/PHE - Power, Space, Boundaries
Social Studies - Conflict, Resources, Power
Generalize!
Aim for 5-7 understandings.
What essential understandings will drive this unit? Start from the conceptual lens
Students understand that...
Driving Question
Driving Question
Driving Question
Generate - Sort - Connect - Elaborate
Generate
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Sort
Connect
Viephoto Studio [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Elaborate
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Mastery Criteria
(Gonzalez, 2015)
Mastery Criteria
Toward Gold Standard Project Based Learning...
Next Steps
Feedback
Session 2: https://bit.ly/2FPcxno
Learning Outcome 1 | Learners will use concept-based curriculum design steps to write 3-7 “generalizations” for a unit of study from which to design inquiry. |
Learning Outcome 2 | Learners will craft one robust “Driving Question” as the basis of a project-based unit. |
Learning Outcome 3 | Learners will brainstorm project outcomes for PBL unit. |
Learning Outcome 4 | Learners will build familiarity with PBL & basic CB design processes for units of student-centered inquiry. |
Works Cited