I found the visit to Pacific School for Innovation and Inquiry very inspiring and eye-opening. I am most curious about how to use an inquiry approach in the everyday public school classroom. For some insights into this, the founder of the school suggested checking out the work of Trevor MacKenzie who has been using inquiry in his classroom for years (https://www.trevormackenzie.com). From there, I listened to some of his podcasts and read his first book on the topic – Dive into Inquiry (https://www.trevormackenzie.com/dive-into-inquiry). There are so many useful ideas in the book. And while we have been asked to do a lot of inquiry as our assignments so far, the book provides some very good insights into how exactly you would apply this method as a teacher in a public school classroom. In addition, the PSII website also provides some very good resources to draw from. I was especially interested in the Learning Verbs Depth Chart http://learningstorm.org/learning-verbs/. With these resources, I’d like to start mapping out a series of activities/lessons to put this into action.
