Investigate Plan Create Reflect Inquiry in the International Baccalaureate Program Inquiry-Based/IB Educational Approach Emphasizes: Non-Inquiry-Based (“Traditional”) Educational Approach Emphasizes: • 21 st Century Skills • critical thinking • collaboration • problem-solving • curiosity • student-led learning • community action • concepts, knowledge and skills • exploring, experimenting, questioning students passively receiving information learning limited to recall of memorized and discrete facts students answering close- ended (yes/no) questions teacher led classrooms almost all of the time DMPS International Baccalaureate Bulletin November 2012 By Dr. Alekno, DMPS IB and World Languages Coordinator This month, the DMPS IB Program is emphasizing inquiry-based learning strategies. This month’s newsletter will highlight examples of IB students participating in inquiry and action-oriented IB education. Learning through inquiry is emphasized at every level of the IB continuum. Students in the Des Moines Public Schools’ IB Primary Years (PK-5), Middle Years (6-10), and Diploma (11-12) Programmes participate in inquiry-based learning every day, and IB provides the structure through which inquiry is highlighted. What is Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning? IB classrooms are active places where students and teachers engage in the construction of knowledge, skills, and understanding. IB students are expected to be curious, real-world problem solvers who learn and use the inquiry skills of analysis, synthesis, application, evaluation, creation, and transfer; both within and outside of the classroom. IB students learn to both ask and to answer open-ended questions and to take action as a result of their own learning to improve their local and global communities. Please enjoy the examples of inquiry and action within the November IB bulletin. To learn more about the DMPS IB Programme please contact: Dr. Simone Alekno IB and World Languages Coordinator Des Moines Public Schools 901 Walnut Street Des Moines, Iowa, 50309 [email protected]515-242-8504 Bulletin Editors: Dr. Simone Alekno and Olivia Howe, Hoover IB Coordinator IB Inquiry Cycle “Inquiry…is recognized as allowing students to be actively involved in their own learning and to take responsibility for that learning. Successful inquiry will lead to action.“ -IB Organization November IB Highlight: Learner Profile Trait: Inquirer Inquiry as an approach to learning has been advocated for by many educationists since the early 20 th Century, and inquiry is at the heart of DMPS IB schools. Inquirers are curious, problem-solving, life-long learners. November 2012 ● Volume 1, Issue 2 ● DMPS IB Programme● (515) 242-8504
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Investigate
Plan
Create
Reflect
Inquiry in the International Baccalaureate Program
Inquiry-Based/IB Educational
Approach Emphasizes:
Non-Inquiry-Based
(“Traditional”) Educational
Approach Emphasizes: • 21st Century Skills
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• curiosity
• student-led learning
• community action
• concepts, knowledge and skills
• exploring, experimenting,
questioning
students passively receiving
information
learning limited to recall of
memorized and discrete facts
students answering close-
ended (yes/no) questions
teacher led classrooms almost
all of the time
DMPS International Baccalaureate Bulletin November 2012
By Dr. Alekno, DMPS IB and World
Languages Coordinator
This month, the DMPS IB Program is
emphasizing inquiry-based learning
strategies. This month’s newsletter
will highlight examples of IB
students participating in inquiry and
action-oriented IB education.
Learning through inquiry is
emphasized at every level of the IB
continuum. Students in the Des
Moines Public Schools’ IB Primary
Years (PK-5), Middle Years (6-10),
and Diploma (11-12) Programmes
participate in inquiry-based
learning every day, and IB provides
the structure through which inquiry
is highlighted.
What is Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning? IB classrooms are active places
greeted the Goodrell students with a “thank you” for taking an interest in world hunger. Dr. Hillel’s concept of bringing efficient water irrigation to arid lands helped some of the most barren environments in the world flourish. Goodrell Students recognized at the event are: Tanika Butts, Andrea Babcock, Sharlay Eaton, Safie Jackson, Victoria Lewis, Tatyhana Murray, Neomy Salgado-Suarez, Tiana Turner, Priscilla Uvalle, Kelsey Wadden.
Goodrell IB Students Recognized by the World Food
Prize Organization for Confronting World Hunger
Goodrell IB Students Collaborate
to Study Latino Heritage
By Kisha Barnes, Goodrell IB Coordinator On Tuesday, October 16, eleven young women from Goodrell Middle School were recognized by Ken Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Organization, for raising funds to purchase a goat for the Heifer Club International. After inquiring into global hunger and considering solutions, these IB students decided that the gift of livestock to a struggling family would lead to a more sustainable solution to their struggle with hunger. At the World Food Prize Organization, Dr. Daniel Hillel
By Kisha Barnes, Goodrell IB Coordinator A large group of students from all three grade levels collaborated to provide Goodrell students and staff information about Latino heritage. The students worked to complete a comparison of Halloween and El Dia De Los Muertos customs. Additionally, Dawn Ozperza shared some cultural information on Aztec heritage. “Bachata Des Moines,” a non-profit organization devoted to sharing Bachata dance and music with the greater Des Moines community, demonstrated dances for Goodrell students at an all-school assembly. Goodrell teachers, students, and parents were impressed by the level of commitment and the amount of work completed by IB students to make this inquiry into Latino Heritage a success. In addition, students also engaged in challenging discussions regarding multiculturalism and how to best understand one’s cultural heritage.