Successful pedagogies for inquiry and knowledge building

 

A Generic KB Pedagogy

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This knowledge building pedagogical design was used by a General Studies teacher for his class of Primary 4 students. He adopted the same basic design throughout the three years participating in the KBTN project, but every year new elements were added. In the second year, the teacher used a news article (i.e. an authentic scenario) to stimulate the students’ generation of inquiry questions. In the third year, the teacher further refined his design by intervening in students’ discussion.

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    Phase 1
    Generate
    Inquiry
    Qs
    Phase 2
    F2F and
    online
    discussion
    Phase 3
    Identify
    good Qs
    for inquiry
    F2F and
    online
    discussion
    Phase 4
     
    Consolidation
     

    Highlights of design:

    • Use of scaffolds
    • Focus on six W’s (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How) to facilitate question generation
    • Presentation of real-world situations at more refined levels of KB

    Learning outcomes:

    • When authentic real-world scenarios are used to generate questions, more hypothetical questions are produced
    • Quality of question generation becomes higher in later stages
    • Increasingly varied types of questions generated
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    Detailed Pedagogies


    Teacher A

    Mr Tim Wong

    Ms Hidy Tse