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Learning using the Questioning process …  The student's have to own the process.  Its not the teacher asking the question.

Pick a text, picture or video to have the students look/read at about the subject we want them to learn.  After they complete to task, ask them the following:

·       What question do you want to ask about this Text, Video, Picture?

·       What excited you, or made you sad about what we discussed?  Involve the group … Do they agree or have other questions or thoughts?

·       What question comes to mind as you consider this painting/text?

 Video on this process of showing an article and writing questions you have to learn a subject

Want to create a dialogue with the group about what the student is curious about.

Need to teach of students about the different levels of questions like the Bloom Taxonomy

Goals for the group:  Develop the methods, definitions and writing of “how a learning team operates”; How to problem solve; Creating reporting system  

The Outcome:

·       Operating principles of a learning team

·       Create a team charter

·       Written procedures and processes for a team

·       Defining the team’s culture

• Picking and solving a problem

• Creating and presenting a report on your project 

Tools:

·       You can use any resource to find information ( Web, books, people, etc.)

·       You can work together to create your thoughts

·       You need to write your thoughts as a group

·       Your group will discuss and present your thoughts at the end of the project

How to begin:

·       Follow the attached flow chart and develop your answers to the questions or thoughts.

·       Do your best as there is no one right answer.   Its what you make of it.

·       Think of and define the following life skills:  Listening skills. Non-verbal skills, planning and goal setting, controlling your emotions, how to deal when you have a dis-agreement with others. Empathy for others,

o   Create an index card with a two sentence description for the skill

o   Try to implement the skill in your everyday activity

o   Reflect on your growth or lack of growth    

·      When learning about a new subject as a team, we use various questions to gather information:

Reflection:  Iteration

What have we learning, do we need more info;

This learning process starts with a group of between 5-8 individuals, who will work together starting with an ice-breaker, then forming a learning team, followed by selecting a problem, working on solving the problem and finishing up with a testing and reporting activity to the community.  During these tasks, life-skills will be infused in the process. 

The expected outcomes are as follows:

Uses questioning, why, what and how while doing activities.

Developing an engineering & team mind-set.  (Teams build character, culture and community.)

Internalize the problem-solving process & Thinking skills

Connection to various life skills used in the community, business and schools.

Overall Plan

Begin a path for lifelong learning.

Learning how to learn  Joe Novak; D.Bob Growin   Human experience involves not only Thinking (questioning, creative & critical thinks, reflection) and ACTING (projects, improv, ) BUT ALSO FEELINGS   There is no limits for the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from experience Tools: ·       People think with concepts and that concept maps (A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. It is a graphical tool that instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others use to organize and structure knowledge. Wikipedia)  serve to externalize these concepts and improve thinking plus using a Vee diagram to formalize thoughts   Vee Diagram

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