Sam Sharp

Masters of Teaching candidate at OISE. Experienced Museum Educator. Dog Owner.

[Sam Sharp @SamShar51775262]

@ctl1215 Q2. Inquiry assessment is about exploring the quality of the thinking and this is harder to assess. Teachers should be open to different ways for student to reflect on labs such as visual narratives, models, posters, science displays, web pages, graphic novels, blogs, films.

[Sam Sharp @SamShar51775262]

@ctl1215 Q1. I think some misconceptions about inquiry and inexperience with facilitating it are additional barriers. Often inquiry work iterates in the classroom as fully student directed work. That kind of work can be amazing but teachers need to build up student capacity for it first.

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[Sam Sharp @SamShar51775262]

@ctl1215 3. Science teachers should consider taking the lead from Stockelmayer et al. and looking for third spaces in informal science education spaces (2010). This could look like after school clubs that draw on community partners, creating sites of cultural boarder crossing.

[Sam Sharp @SamShar51775262]

@ctl1215 2. I think a big obstacle is teachers not wanting to do this work poorly and reproduce issues of tokenism. A good place to start would be “the acknowledgement of cultural differences in the classroom" (AIkenhead and Elliot, pg.237, 2010).

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