Inquiry-Driven Learning: How Students See Themselves As Owning Their Learning

Listen and learn : Panel

Monday, June 24, 9:00–10:00 am
Location: Terrace Ballroom IV, Level 4 (near Posters)

Erin Giorgio Matthew Kay Chris Lehmann Jakob Lehmann Horace Ryans Zoe Tweh
Listen to students and teachers from the Science Leadership Academy schools talk about how an inquiry-driven, modern approach to learning creates more authentic, powerful spaces for all members of a school community. Panelists will discuss how all schools can create the conditions for more authentic learning.

Audience:	Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Teachers, Principals/head teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Windows, Android, iOS Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Focus:	Digital age teaching & learning
Topic:	Innovative learning environments
Grade level:	6-12
ISTE Standards:	For Administrators: Digital Age Learning Culture Provide learner-centered environments equipped with technology and learning resources to meet the individual, diverse needs of all learners. For Students: Empowered Learner Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. For Educators: Leader Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology by engaging with education stakeholders.
Additional detail:	Student presentation

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Purpose: For a collaborative (teachers and students) panel to speak about the values and structures of the inquiry-driven, project-based approach to learning at the Science Leadership Academies, and how those values and structures create the conditions for a more authentic and powerful learning model for all.

Objectives: Educators will have a deeper perspective of the student lens of inquiry-driven learning.
Educators will understand some of the key conditions necessary to create inquiry-driven schools.
Educators will be asked to consider what is necessary to make pedagogical shifts in their learning communities.

Outline

Panel:
5 Minute Overview of the Learning Model of SLA
5 Minute Introduction of Panelists with the answering of a common question: "How has an inquiry-driven approach to education changed your perspective on school?"
25 Minutes: Moderator-led panel discussion
15 Minutes: Q&A
5 Minutes: Reflective Practice -- Participants share take-aways and potential next steps with one another.
5 Minutes: Wrap-Up