ENTRANCE SLIP

CREATE your ACTION PLAN for the WEEK
What are your goals for the week?
What do you hope to accomplish?
Share strategies you will use to be successful.

SHARING our THINKING about TEACHING AND LEARNING

What are your fundamental beliefs about learning?
What are your fundamental beliefs about teaching?
When you think about your students reading, writing and thinking what do you see? What would you like to see?
How can the inquiry and design process impact your teaching and your students' learning?

KWL

WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT INQUIRY AND DESIGN?

Connect what you already know to the Inquiry and Design Cycle. What do you call the various stages? Share what you already do in your classroom that is similar to Inquiry and Design? What do you want to know more about regarding the Inquiry and Design process? What do you plan to do with your new knowledge?

SHARE YOUR INQUIRY ROAD MAP
What ideas for a standards-based-inquiry unit do you have?

INQUIRY THREAD TIME

REFLECT on or RESPOND to your INQUIRY THREAD time
What is your reaction to your inquiry thread?
What connections are you making?
What are you excited about?
Reflect on how your experiences in your inquiry thread might impact the way you design your classroom activities.

EXPLORE INQUIRY on the WEB

INTERESTING INQUIRY LINKS: WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Interested in other aspects of inquiry?
Check out these sites and share with us what you think.

http://www.biopoint.com/belhar/garden/courtyardgarden2.html
http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/ http://manduca.entomology.wisc.edu/teacher/why.html http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/index.phphttp://www.willard.k12.mo.us/co/tech/inquiry.htm http://www.ndtwt.org/Blackboard/P2SST2/inqu.htm http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/approach/inquiry.asp

REFLECT ON COLLABORATION

Throughout the week, observe the working environment. Gather evidence on how teams work together and how teams are not able to work together. What aspects help create collaboration? What are obstacles to collaboration? Assess your role, and the role of others in creating a collaborative environment. Share your ideas and thinking about teacher collaboration.