Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! In this post, I am going to be covering topics related to literacy strategies and inquiry-based learning. The literacy strategy I found from the week 12 investment readings that I think will be helpful for my future students is the paraphrasing strategy called RAP. The RAP paraphrasing strategy teaches students to read, ask, and put the information they are learning into their own words so that they are able to retain and remember it better. The most important aspect of this strategy is being able to identify the main idea of the reading, which is the facts or information that students need to remember for future assessments or application. I know I struggle a lot with "mindlessly" reading information and not being able to fully learn or recall what I just read. I believe the RAP paraphrasing strategy is a great tool to increase student retention related to the main idea of a certain topic.
Although I was only able to participate in the PA Inquiry Institute on Thursday, I was still provided with a lot of material and resources that will be very beneficial to my future career as a teacher. After reviewing some of the online material about Inquiry-based learning, I found that the need to question and come up with solutions is a necessary and crucial part to creating an engaging learning environment. One specific resource I like from the Inquiry Institute is the Interactive Agriscience Notebook, which contains lab notebook paper and a table of contents. Implementing inquiry based instruction into the classroom requires the need for students to collect and reflect on their findings, so that they can prepare proper solutions to the problems they have identified. Having a lab notebook for them to fill out as they learn seems to be a very important part of inquiry-based learning.
Interactive Agriscience Notebook
Another important resource that I like from the Inquiry Institute is the Classroom Inquiry Chart that details the direction in which students are learning on a more or less scale. I think this is an important chart to refer to when writing lesson plans, so that we can ensure we are not just teaching all the way to the left or all the way to the right. Providing students with that balance of giving them instruction but also allowing them time to dive into inquiry is important in keeping them engaged and learning the entire time.
One idea that I loved from the Inquiry Institute was the Growing Digestive Systems activity. Since I missed Friday, I was unable to participate in this activity but got to sit down with my fellow cohort member Riley to get caught up. She briefed me on the different activities they participated in and this one stuck out to me. I will definitely incorporate this activity into my future classroom and will even modify it for an animal reproduction unit when I am teaching students about the different reproductive organs. Overall, the various inquiry activities that I learned will be beneficial for me as I continue to write and prepare my lessons and will enable me to sparks my future students' curiosity.
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