Inquiry Learning at Yeronga State School

Have you asked your students what they are inquiring into this term?  The whole school will be focusing on the concept of ‘cause and effect’ over the coming weeks. 

Cause-and-effect thinking, or causality, allows us to make inferences and reason about things that happen around us. Causality helps us understand things as simple as "If I don't water plants the'll die" to things more complicated such as other people's intentions and behaviours. When children understand cause and effect, they also begin to understand the operation of mechanisms, which allows them to understand causal relationships"

(Ashley Bailey-Gilreath, 2015)

The table below is an overview of the focus areas in each year level for Term 2.

Students continue to build their learning asset skills of thinking, collaboration, research, self-management, communication and contribution.  We encourage and give opportunities for students to build their learner agency.   The statements below show how students might demonstrate learner agency.  

(Kath Murdoch, 2019)

As inquiry teachers we use the following strategies to build learner agency in our classrooms.

(Kath Murdoch, 2019)