My understanding of enquiry/inquiry is the ability to seek or request for truth, information, or knowledge through investigation and questioning for both my students and my own teaching practices. As human beings we continuously dissecting the reality of the world we are in and what we perceive in our own point of view. That viewpoint is bendable and, through practice along with perseverance we learn to critically reflect and eliminates our personal biases. One can only see the world through their own lens nevertheless have connects with others on their perception of the world. Therefore, enquiry is an irreplaceable mythology. Furthermore, as teachers we must manage classrooms were it's not socially and emotionally control but flexible, empowered,
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At the end they had to summarize what led to United States entry to WWI. I collected their work and went over the answers with them. I did this pulse check for two reasons. First to collect data and see who is following along to the pace of the class and Secondly, was to see if I can found common misunderstandings that I need to readdress. I realize during this pulse test students struggled with remembering and understanding the two main causes that led to United States entering WWI. At that moment I showed commitment to the on-going improvement of my teaching practices (Enquiry 5). As a result, I spent the following day going over why and when United States entered WWI. Furthermore, students had a clear understanding on United States entry into WWI because it showed up in their writing (benchmark). For example Student A stated in his essay
“ The causes of WW1 were militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism. All four issues led to the begin of ww1 which started from 1914 to 1918, this war is known as the great war. Militarism is building a strong army to prepare for war, Alliances is when countries come together to aid one another, imperialism is when a stronger country takes over a weaker country and nationalism is when one has pride in their nation. To understand the issues of World War One we must know the underlying causes behind it. In addition, these causes led to social, political and economical
At the end they had to summarize what led to United States entry to WWI. I collected their work and went over the answers with them. I did this pulse check for two reasons. First to collect data and see who is following along to the pace of the class and Secondly, was to see if I can found common misunderstandings that I need to readdress. I realize during this pulse test students struggled with remembering and understanding the two main causes that led to United States entering WWI. At that moment I showed commitment to the on-going improvement of my teaching practices (Enquiry 5). As a result, I spent the following day going over why and when United States entered WWI. Furthermore, students had a clear understanding on United States entry into WWI because it showed up in their writing (benchmark). For example Student A stated in his essay
“ The causes of WW1 were militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism. All four issues led to the begin of ww1 which started from 1914 to 1918, this war is known as the great war. Militarism is building a strong army to prepare for war, Alliances is when countries come together to aid one another, imperialism is when a stronger country takes over a weaker country and nationalism is when one has pride in their nation. To understand the issues of World War One we must know the underlying causes behind it. In addition, these causes led to social, political and economical