Wilhelm Inquiry Chp.3 Part 1

March 27^th, 2012Wilhelm Inquiry Chp.3 Part 1

　

This article starts off by talking about guided questions and how to engage your students. It talked about implementing a three step process. It discussed how you can turn a standard into and essential question. And it also just ran through and gave tips on how you can generate these questions.

The article talked about teaching what has to be taught, but in a way that is interesting to kids. I think this is so important when it comes to learning. Teachers often forget that they can be creative when it comes to their lessons. It is so important to engage kids. Even though you are given specific criteria that must be taught you can still make it your own and make it fun for the kids to learn. By being creative you have a better chance of encouraging the kids to make a connections and to really learn and be able to apply the information they are absorbing in other situations.

I thought the tips that this chapter gave were very useful. It helped to inspire you to look outside of the box and to draw ideas from other sources. This is very important because the more sources you have the more unique and new material you will have to present to your students which makes for an engaging and innovative classroom. It also will help you to get new information that you may have never gotten had you not explored those other sources.

The strategies I used while reading were; re-reading and making connections. While I read the part about the three step process it helped me to think back to what I learned in secondary curriculum class when it comes to backward design and enduring understandings.

　

Citation

Wilhelm. Asking the guiding question: reframing the existing curriculum into inquiry units.