Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Michael Pohl Day Seminar

As a staff we went and listened to Michael Pohl on Inquiry Learning at the Event Centre, in Levin. I found the seminar very interesting. Michael spoke about aspects of the Learning Inquiry process. He backed up our ideas of inquiry, which we are already thinking about and trying to incorprate into our classroom programmes.

The one thing that I did worry about with Michael's seminar is that he spoke about Bloom's Taxanomy which confused me as we are focussing on using Solo Taxonomy with our inquiry model. Both taxonomies are similar and can be applied in the same way of Inquiry Learning. I would have liked to hear more on other taxonomies rather than just the main taxonomy of Bloom's. I was hoping for ideas on the use of Solo with inquiry.

The one thing that I would like to find out more about as a result of the seminar are when to use the tools used beside the thinking skills of Inquiry Learning. The big question I have and would like to find out is whether you use a variety of tools at various levels, as mentioned by Michael or do you use one thinking tool such as De Bono's hats and use it until well used and then start introducing another tools such as Tony Ryan's keys?

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