| Type | Price |
|---|---|
For Members Standard Price Subsidy/Grant Applied Reduced Member Price |
$1,125.00 -$830.00 $295.00 |
| Non-Members | $720.00 |
Description
This workshop, presented by Kath Murdoch for AISWA Early Childhood, is designed to suit K-6 educators.
One of the core elements of an inquiry based approach is the use of a ‘cycle of inquiry’ to support and scaffold both planning and teaching. This collaborative process is creative and dynamic and can be a powerful professional learning experience in itself. In this workshop we will explore practical approaches to designing inquiry journeys with and for our learners with an emphasis on striking a balance between forward mapping that attends to the curriculum and responsive planning that takes into account the needs and interests of students.
• The essential ingredients in the planning process
• Choosing and working with real life contexts to enhance the power of an inquiry
• Strategies to enhance the quality of collaboration in a planning team
• The role of concepts in planning
• How to build connections across the curriculum
• The way a cycle of inquiry can support the planning process
• How to engage student voice in the design process
• Strategies for documentation
• Building assessment into the planning process
Kath will guide participants through her popular cycle of inquiry and show how understanding the elements of the process can make a powerful difference to the way we plan. Kath will show the way the cycle can be used to invite children into the planning process and how the meta language of the cycle can help children transfer the process to more personal, independent inquiries. Kath will also identify how the cycle can help elevate the role of key competencies or ‘Learning Assets’ as it unfolds. We will examine many examples of powerful inquiries from across the primary years to inspire us … come along ready to do some planning!
***Subsidy provided from Preschool Reform Agreement (PRA)
Outcomes
- Explore strategies for designing inquiry experiences that achieve a balance between curriculum requirements and adapting to students' emerging interests and needs.
- Explore how to design inquiry journeys that emphasise key concepts across the curriculum, using real-life contexts to deepen student engagement and understanding.
- Develop skills for enhancing the quality of collaboration when designing for inquiry.
- Explore methods for inviting student voice into the design of inquiry journeys, empowering learners to contribute to and shape their own learning experiences.
- Explore how to embed assessment and documentation practices throughout the inquiry process.
Presenters
Kath Murdoch
Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, America and Europe. She is widely respected for her work in the field of inquiry based learning and integrative curriculum in which she has taught, researched and published for well over 20 years.
Kath began her professional life as a classroom teacher in Melbourne. Her fascination in how students’ constructed their understandings - and her interest in the way questions and big ideas could drive curriculum soon lead to a passion for integrative and inquiry based methodologies. This passion has become a career long focus for teaching, research and writing and the methodologies in which Kath specialises are now central to curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world – including the popular International Baccalaureate, PYP program.
Critical to Kath’s success is her continued involvement in classroom teaching. Whether it is to demonstrate techniques, coach teachers or build her own repertoire of practices, Kath is committed to regular and ongoing work with students. Her classroom work and research feeds a dynamic and ever-evolving expertise in the area of integrative and inquiry-based learning.
Kath’s professional development offerings are diverse. They range from intensive partnerships with schools to develop inquiry programs and practices over several years through to one-day workshops for beginning or experienced inquiry teachers. Whether in her home town of Melbourne or on the other side of the world, working with a team or speaking to a packed auditorium Kath’s style is refreshingly practical, inclusive and always connected to the real world of teaching.
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Segments
Designing powerful journeys of inquiry with and for K-6 learners (with Kath Murdoch)
Date / Time
4 Jun 2025 Starts: 09:00 Finishes: 15:30Delivery Format : In Person