Coley Street Classroom Visits

We have just toured around several classrooms at Coley Street School looking at Inquiry Learning in action. Each class we went to was at a different stage of their Inquiry and at different levels of Inquiry - teacher directed, guided, pure but all classes used the similar tools such as Fogartys, deBonos, SOLO and used the same rubrics for assessment of Inquiry. Our tour guide Sarah was knowledgeable on Inquiry and could answer most of our questions. This tour helped clarify and cement our Inquiry ideas. The assessment of skills and processes rather than knowledge is a hurdle that ERO has accepted. Their reports do not have science, health, social studies and technology listed, only the skills and stages from Inquiry. A very enjoyable and informative experience which has generated lots of ideas.