The Inquiry Group

Lisa Snyder has welcomely begun the conversation on how to integrate practices of inquiry into our learning spaces. Under her leadership, a group of faculty across divisions meet at common times either before lunch or after school to discuss inquiry and learning.

I believe the next step with the Inquiry Group would be too collectively generate a common rubric for inquiry. Before delving into the process of inquiry, we should ask ourselves, "What does successful inquiry look like and how can we distinguish it from other learning practices? How can we tell whether our students are really engaging in inquiry and at what level? How can we provide feedback to students on whether they are engaging in inquiry? What common language do we use?" Only after developing a template rubric that coherently, clearly and concisely defines what inquiry is, can we build out the process for tasking our students for engaging in inquiry based challenges.

From B. Hudspith and H. Jenkins, Green Guide #3: Teaching the Art of Inquiry