D. DESCRIPTION OF FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS
7. Moving towards Teaching through Inquiry throughout the Curriculum
D7.1. Learning how to plan a new inquiry unit
List of materials available about "Learning how
to plan a new inquiry unit":
- Logistics and scheduling information. (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans:
- Instructional materials:
- "Planning a new inquiry unit: A case-study"
(Borasi, 1998) essay (available in hard copy ONLY , in the booklet "suggested
readings for the participants")
- selected artifacts from the planning of the Olympics
unit -- providing further information and illustrations
of specific components of this planning process (hyper-text
version / photocopy-ready
version (for photocopy ready version, use the "Back"
button on your browser to return here)
- A teacher's reflections on her process of planning
inquiry units -- this essay, written by one of
the teachers who planned the Olypmics inquiry unit, elaborates on the reflections
she shared in the video about how she changed her planning practice (In-service program)
- Participants' work: N/A
- Participants' feedback: not
available
D7.2. Developing a mathematical inquiry independently
List of materials available about "Developing a
mathematical inquiry independently":
- Logistics and scheduling information. (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans (Methods course)
- Instructional materials:
- Taxicab-geometry story (photocopy ready, use the "Back" button on your browser
to return here) that was used as a prompt to model how one could initiate
an inquiry on "taxicab-geometry"
- text of assignments connected with the project of
developing an independent math inquiry (Methods course)
- Participants' work:
- Participants' feedback: not
available
D7.3. Learning about resources to support instructional
innovation
List of materials available about "Learning about
resources to support instructional innovation":
- Logistics and scheduling information. (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans:
- Instructional materials:
- Participants' work: not available
- Participants' feedback: not
available
D7.4. Learning strategies for using instructional resources
effectively
List of materials available about "Sharing strategies
for using instructional resources effectively":
- Logistics and scheduling information. (In-service program/ Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans:
- Plan for a brainstorming session on the possible instructional
uses of the Project Mathematica video "The Theorem of Pythagoras"
(In-service program/
Methods course )
- Instructional materials:
- Participants' work: N/A
- Participants' feedback: not
available
D7.5. Planning and implementing a new inquiry unit
List of materials available about "Planning and
implementing a new inquiry unit":
- Logistics and scheduling information. (In-service program / Methods
course)
- Facilitator's plans: N/A
- Instructional materials:
- Participants' work:
- brief description of units designed by participants
(In-service program/
Methods course)
- final reports of selected units designed and implemented
by the participants -- to give a sense
of the quality of some of the units created by the participants at this
stage, and of the kinds of reports the students wrote on these experiences
(In-service program
/ Methods course)
- Participants' feedback: not
available
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