We're having lots of discussions around what our topic of inquiry could be around. We had really wanted to continue focussing on PBL: problem, project, passion, peer and play based learning but are struggling to find many peer reviewed research on this topic, especially for students Year 6-8.
Most important for me, is choosing a question that is still highly purposeful and also meets our overall goal of fostering engagement and accelerating learning for all students.
So now we're thinking about researching why some children have great ideas for writing but struggle to record them. It is a useful topic to explore for us as it has implications for their recording of information and ideas that arise from the kids play and passion projects. From these discussions, we have come up with some exciting questions (still working on : What is the optimum learning environment that empowers students to be writers? Of course this might change as we start doing some more reading
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