This document provides an agenda and notes from a week 2 education class focusing on inquiry and questioning. It includes: 1. A discussion of professional learning conversations, the Ontario language curriculum, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and inquiry models like KWL and KWHLAQ. 2. An exploration of expectations in the Ontario language curriculum and a close examination of one strand's expectations across grades. 3. An activity using photographs and accounts about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address curriculum expectations and build students' understanding of Indigenous issues. 4. An assignment to explore educational blogs and respond to a forum posting about the resources.

1. Week 2
Inquiry/Questioning
EDBE 8P24
2018-2019

2. Agenda
• Professional Learning Conversations
• Ontario Curriculum: Language
• TRC – What is it? Why does it matter?
• Inquiry Questions:
– KWL
– KWHLAQ
– Questioning/ Inquiry in 21C classrooms
• For next week: Explore Resources

3. Professional Learning Conversations
• PLCs will be led by the Literacy Leader
• Literacy Leader posts summary to Drop Box by
the end of today
• Literacy Leaders for Week 3 meet with Ruth at
end of class

4. Questions to consider for critical
understanding
• Who created this resource?
• For what purpose was it created?
• Is the information accurate and believable?
• What does the author want you to think?
• Whose voices are missing, silenced, or discounted?
• How does it help you think about social issues and
justice?

5. Critical Literacy…
• All texts are constructions
• All texts contain belief and value messages
• Each person interprets messages differently
• Texts serve different interests
• Each medium develops its own “language” in order to position
readers/viewers in certain ways

6. The Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 -
Language
• http://www.edu.g
ov.on.ca/eng/curr
iculum/elementar
y/language18curr
b.pdf
• Launched in 2006

7. Ontario Curriculum – Language 1-8
• Oral Communication
• 1.
• 2.
• Media Studies
• 1.
• 2.
• Reading
• 1.
• 2.
• Writing
• 1.
• 2.

8. Curriculum expectations are
mandatory.
Overall expectations
• Describe in general terms
the knowledge and skills
students are expected to
achieve by the end of each
grade
Specific expectations
• Describe the expected
knowledge and skills in
greater detail often with
specific examples
8

9. For your assigned strand…
• Trace an Overall Expectation through grades 4-
8
• How does it progress through the grades?
• What are the differences?
• Read the introductory section for your strand

11. Aboriginal children at Fort Simpson Indian Residential
School in 1922
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/02/the-truth-and-
reconciliation-commission-report.html
J.F. Moran/Library & Archive

12. Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report
Ottawa, June 2, 2015

15. INQUIRY
KWHLAQ
Know
Want to know
How to find it
Learned
Action
Questions

16. 21st Century Competencies
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity and Innovation

17. Curiosity: The 5th C in 21st Century
Learning
• Proposed by Andrew Minigan in “The
Importance of Curiosity and Questions in 21C
Learning” Education Week, May 24, 2017
• Curiosity: Importance of students asking
questions
• Supports the other 4 Cs and adds engagement
and empowerment

18. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/here-is-what-sir-john-a-macdonald-did-to-
indigenous-people

19. Review of activities
• Examined photographs, both captioned and
not captioned
• Listened to Ruth’s personal connections re
TRC
• Completed KWL chart: posed questions
• Read newspaper accounts of TRC report
• Shared what we learned
• Watched video re Sir John A.

20. Link to Ontario Curriculum
• Using the same strand you investigated
previously, find an overall and specific
expectation that was addressed through our
TRC activities

21. Strands
• Oral Communication
• Media Studies
• Reading
• Writing

22. Explore Resources
• Go to Sakai: Week 3 – Sept. 18
• Explore Resources: Educational Blogs
– read very carefully and follow directions
– Post to Forum by 8:00 PM Saturday for Section 1
or 8:00 PM Wednesday for Section 2

23. The 3 Ws
What? Why? What now?