From: Lynn Rankin (lynnr@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 19:22:21 PDT
Message-Id: <l03110706b5f072a79f48@[192.174.2.214]> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:22:21 -0600 From: Lynn Rankin <lynnr@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Re: classroom inquiry resources
Fred,
It's great that you communicated this info about inquiry and the classroom
(from Tues. review) to the grads! Thanks for being so up to date.
L
>Hi all,
>
>Hope everyone's summers were alternately productive and restful and that
>fall finds everyone is good spirits.
>
>The IFI staff just met to review a number of projects' summer workshop
>experiences. One theme that seems very important when doing inquiry
>workshops for teachers was to have way of connecting the ideas from IFI
>activities to the classroom.
>
>Although none of the IFI activities are make and take, there are ideas that
>teachers CAN take away and use in their classrooms. Being up-front with
>teachers about what they can take away from the activities helps them to
>buy-in after they are told NOT to repeat these staff development activities
>with their students.
>
>Here are two requests and a resource:
>
>* Has anyone found effective ways of connecting the ideas in the IFI
>activities (questioning, process skills, etc.) to classroom applications?
>Please send them to the list or contact me to talk about them if you want
>help putting the ideas into words to share.
>
>and
>
>* Please let IFI know (in advance) when your districts/projects are
>presenting IFI-influenced staff development. We are VERY interested in your
>work, and, as much as our schedules allow, would like to visit during
>workshops or at least have a conversation about your work. Thanks!
>
>*** on-line Resource ***
>
>Most of you have already seen the Inquiry issue of Connect magazine which
>includes six case studies of inquiry in the classroom at different grade
>levels.
>It is now on-line and can be shared with teachers and teacher educators at
>
>http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/classroom/connect/
>
>Hope people have found this to be a useful resource,
>
>Fred
>
>Fred Stein
>Science Educator
>Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry
>(415) 561-0332
>fred@exploratorium.edu
>
>
>
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