Vaughan van Rensburg, Principal of Pakuranga Heights School was the guest speaker at the EAAPA (East Auckland AP Association). This is his presentation on inquiry learning within the revised New Zealand Curriculum.

1. Inquiry Learning EAAPA- 11 June 2009 Vaughan van Rensburg

3. What ‘s Inquiry learning ?

6. Inquiry Learning and the revised NZ Curriculum

8. We have learnt from experience that too much curriculum is not conducive to good learning When developing your school based curriculum start with a basic central core of what you see as being absolutely essential for you pupils . There is, and will always be, huge pressure on schools to keep adding to their curriculum

9. Revised NZ Curriculum An Opportunity?

12. Managing Self Attitude Understanding Skills Managing self is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self assessment. Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently. This is a complex mixture, students will not exhibit this competency in any consistent manner, their attitudes, understandings and skills will change from day to day, context to context, and situation to situation. Managing self is associated with self-motivation , a “ can-do” attitude , and with students seeing themselves as capable learners . It is integral to self assessment. Students who manage themselves are enterprising , resourceful , reliable , and resilient . They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow and when and how to act independently. Managing self is associated with self-motivation , a “ can-do” attitude , and with students seeing themselves as capable learners . It is integral to self assessment. Students who manage themselves are enterprising , resourceful , reliable , and resilient . They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead , when to follow and when and how to act independently Managing self is associated with self-motivation , a “ can-do” attitude , and with students seeing themselves as capable learners . It is integral to self assessment . Students who manage themselves are enterprising , resourceful , reliable , and resilient . They establish personal goals , make plans , manage projects and set high standards . They have strategies for meeting challenges . They know when to lead , when to follow and when and how to act independently

17. Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Action Learning Model

18. What is Scaffolding? Scaffolding is a temporary structure which provides help at specific points in the learning process. It allows learners to complete a challenging task which they would not be able to accomplish without help. Scaffolding is a structure. By giving students some structure when solving problems, it can ~ Provide them with clear step by step directions. Allows students to break a large task into more manageable steps. Can help students on task and focused.

19. Visual Scaffold

20. Levels of Scaffold Shared Inquiry Guided Inquiry Independent Inquiry

22. Thinking Tools

23. Audience

24. Assessment Death by assessment