The points that you make here resonate with me too and my experiences. In my limited experience it is time that is the challenge for us in making this work.
Day: May 22, 2019
Discussion forum 4.1b: Inquiry Learning
My school has recently delved into PBL, with a group of teachers and librarians chosen to work on this and delivering it next term. I was meant to be part of this but needed to take the last 4 weeks of term off due to the unexpected diagnosis of a life limiting disease of my beautiful 5 week old niece. I am very passionate about being involved in the introduction of PBL into my school and will hopefully still form part of the team working on this next term. I see the issues that may stand in the way of its success simply being time and continued collaboration cross curricular. Fortunately we have a very supportive Executive who too are passionate about inquiry learning and ensuring that our students are 21st century learners. I look forward to seeing this in full swing within our school.
Discussion forum 4.3 the TL and Curriculum
Our teacher librarian also takes every Yr 7 class for introductory lessons and gets to know them through this. I have found as a classroom teacher that every time I have collaborated on units of work with my TL to use her expertise, the end results have been enriched by this. The students too are more willing to seek the guidance of the TL in this process and perhaps then this has a flow on effect encouraging them to seek their further guidance in other KLAs.
