What does it mean to be an inquiry teacher? | Kathleen Murdoch | YouTubeToText
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I think one of the key differences
that make an inquiry teacher what they
are is their
um the way of seeing the student
actually that they see the student first
and foremost as a competent, capable, curious
curious
um almost partner in in learning. So
they and they see the light in each
child. They find it. They find what it
is that makes that student intrigued and
interested. And there's always something
in everyone.
Inquiry teachers
ask more than they tell.
They they do tell but their dominant way
of working with students is through
questions and through the right kinds of
questions. So they know how to scaffold.
There's a kind of image of of the
inquiry teacher as this kind of lacair um
um
uh handsoff
teacher that simply lets the kids do
what they want. Um that's been a very
persistent image. Um and it comes from
some poor iterations of inquiry. But in
fact, the opposite is true of the best
inquiry teachers I know. They are
teachers that know how to sit with the
student to carefully scaffold. They know
their curriculum so well that they can
um move with the students interests in
order to come to that curriculum. they
have a very um uh strong repertoire of
strategies and approaches. I mean in
some ways when you think about teachers
that might uh rely on a textbook to do
the work for them or that and I still
see it that simply give kids worksheets
to fill in. Surely that is abdicating responsibility.
responsibility.
Um, maybe it would be even be better for
those kids if they were able to just go
in and find out what they wanted to find
out. I think what inquiry teachers do
they're prepared to share the journey
with their students. They're prepared to
say the important words, I don't know. I
wonder how we might find out. They are
not simply a kind of passive guide on
the side as they're often described.
They're very much in the center. They're
alongside the student. They are highly
sophisticated practitioners. They know
where it is. They're wanting to take
their students at a big picture level,
but they work often with the interests,
the questions
that the student brings to the learning
in order to take them further.
They listen,
they observe,
and they respond to what students reveal
to them. They're also teachers that are
great designers. So they bring a kind of
design thinking disposition to their work.
work. [Music]
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