COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY

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COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY

• What the child can do in cooperation today he
  can do alone tomorrow. -Vygotsky

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COOPERATIVE LEARNING

• Mixed Ability Groups
• Peer Tutoring
• Arranging the Classroom
• Group Roles and Individual Responsibilities

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Cooperative Learning Rules include

• Everyone is responsible for his/her own work
• Productive talk is desired, and necessary for
  learning
• Each person is responsible for his/her own
  behavior

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Cooperative Learning Rules also include

• Try to learn from others within your group
• Everyone must be willing to help anyone who asks
• Ask the teacher for help if no one in the group
  can answer the questions

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Inquiry Process Skills

• Observing
• Classifying
• Comparing
• Sequencing
• Measuring
• Communicating
• Using Data
• Graphing

• Using Language
• Sharing
• Using Space-Time Relationships
• Predicting
• Estimating
• Inferring

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Critical and Creative Thinking

• Reasoning
• Criticizing
• Performing logical analysis
• Searching for supporting evidence
• Evaluating outcomes

• Fluency
• Flexibility
• Originality
• Elaboration

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Core Thinking Skills Both critical and creative
thinking make use of specific core thinking skills

• Analyzing skills
• Generating skills
• Integrating skills
• Evaluating skills

• Focusing skills
• Information- gathering skills
• Remembering skills
• Organizing skills

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References

• Adams, D. Hamm, M. 1998. Collaborative Inquiry
  in Science, Math, and Technology. Heinemann,
  Portsmouth, NH.
• Vygotsky, L. S. 1962. Thought and Language.
  Cambridge, MA MIT Press.