Welcome Green Bay Bloggers!
March 31, 2007
Green Bay School uses an Inquiry Learning Pedagogy called Learning Pathways.
Learning Pathways aims to create independent, motivated, skilled learners with well developed critical thinking skills.
The sequence we use at Green Bay initiates with the staff deciding on the context and a Fertile Question, which will be worked on for a whole term. This is followed by an Immersion phase, because we believe that the students need some knowledge before they begin to form questions. When the immersion phase is complete, the students form sub-questions which will enable them to answer “The Big Question” and proceed to investigate and discover answers to their questions. Whilst the school is currently loosely following Gwen Gawith’s “Action Learning” as this is an Information Literacy Model that is familiar to many NZ teachers, staff are free to use whichever IL Model they feel best suits the needs of their children.
Term 2, 2007, our big question is: Push, Play, Why bother?
Push, Play refers to a SPARC programme which encourages people to participate in at least 30 minutes exercise a day.
This blog is aimed at enabling Green Bay Teachers, and other interested parties, to discuss the issues around the implementation of Learning Pathways in their classroom, what’s good, what’s hard, what helps. It’s a place where you can share your feelings, your successes, and your good ideas.
Greetings all bloggers.
While this blog is primarily for Green Bay School teachers, we welcome comments and input from other educators.
Hello, it’s me Maria I am a blog virgin, and in a meeting. Will try blogging more at a later date.
Chow bella
Maria
We are making haste slowly. We are still learning and teaching about questions. Our classes are gradually beginning to differentiate between fat and skinny questions. We live in hope that each time we do a topic more and more children will know what we are talking about!