Engaging In Inquiry

(1987) described this form of instruction as a systematic method of teaching with emphasis on proceeding in small steps, checking for student understanding, and achieving active and successful participation by all students. I have also used the strategy as reference for determining the strengths and weaknesses of my lesson. After conducting in class lesson and reviewing my video lesson multiple times, I was able to identify my strengths

I have not had a lot of experience with the Aboriginal culture apart from viewing Welcome to Country ceremonies at community events and listening to Acknowledgment of Country within school assemblies and events spoken by non-Indigenous people. I have visited many significant landmarks and historical areas relating to the Aboriginal culture within my area but hope that this critical reflection journal will help me to develop a greater understanding, awareness and knowledge of the first and traditional custodians of the country in which I now live. This journal will analyse the topics of: Acknowledgement to Country, Introduction to the unit and Preparation to teach; Identity culture and stereotypes; and, Indigenous Australian Histories and Policy and how these may impact on my pedagogy and future

Research an aspect of Australian history (e.g. policy, practice) and outline the ways in which this aspect has impacted on Aboriginal people and Aboriginal education.

hese studies highlighted the importance of Relational Inquiry approach as a guide to develop effective teaching and learning pedagogies and Relational Inquiry can serve as an important educational tool. However, these studies provide little evidence of the use of Relational Inquiry approach in nursing practice, moreover, whether nursing students are able to adopt this approach for their clinical practice. Given that the Relational Inquiry approach is useful for guiding nursing practice and advancing student learning, it is important to explore the Relational Inquiry nursing capacities: compassion, competence, commitment, correspondence, and curiosity in educational based research.

This week’s learning has significantly developed my awareness of Indigenous origins, history and culture. I discovered the multiple recordings of Indigenous origins and events that occurred before and after European settlement. Before starting this unit I did not have proper knowledge of previous government policies of discriminating the lives of Indigenous Australians such as protection, assimilation, integration, self-determination, multiculturalism and the Howard Government’s mean-spirited practical reconciliation (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016); and how Indigenous Australians struggled to earn the equality (Miller, 2012) to reach the current policy of ‘Closing the Gap’. What this week’s learning have highlighted that today Australian classrooms acknowledge, respect and deliver Indigenous Australian histories more adequately than ever before. I now understand that Indigenous perspectives would help students to learn the interconnectedness of Indigenous histories and relate these to contemporary life for Indigenous Australians (The Department of Education, 2017). This understanding is essential for me to evaluate my own knowledge of Indigenous Australian histories and policies to develop a holistic approach to include Indigenous perspectives in classrooms.

It also provides students the knowledge and understanding of history by revealing “the importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples who belong to a local area” (ACARA, 2015,

I developed my systemic questions based on what my linear questions were about. I wanted to make sure some of the questions were the same type of question as my linear question but worded in a circular way that would get me more detailed answers and more depth behind her answers. Systemic questions are both circular and reflexive. They are behavioral effect questions, difference questions, hypothetical future questions, and observer perspective questions. The reflexive questions are intended to indirectly influence the family and are predominantly facilitative. The circular questions are more exploratory as the counselor tries to discover the way everything is connected together. Because the

The shared history of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in WA is not ancient and distant. Much has happened in this time, the effects of which are still felt today. Successive governments used differing policies in order to come to terms with a culture so vastly different from their own (Hayward, K. (2014). Chris explains that with the use of gatherings within schools, students have a chance to catch up on news from distant places with a sense of shared histories and kinship which links within the communities. Students then have a chance to reflect on these ideas and create an understanding of the process from a traditional perspective and where it stands today.

Rather it be a movie on the pilgrims journey across the ocean or how water is evaporated, I feel that students learn a lot through video clips. An example of a video resource that I plan on using with my third graders is via the site www.neok12.com. This site is amazing and has videos broken down into age groups. My third graders are going to learn about the planets on this site with an amazing 13 minute video clip giving insite information about each planet and the order of them in our solar system. Before watching the clip, I will pass out a worksheet for the children to fill out answers to the questions they will only be able to answer if they pay attention to the video. After the video clip is over, I will get everyone’s papers turned in and then we will have a discussion. The students will then be assigned a project that will have them pick a planet in our solar system and create a visual project to present to the class the following week. Science is super fun and I feel that this video will assist my third graders in seeing how amazing our galaxy is. However, there are some downfalls when it comes to videos for children who have behavioral issues such as not being able to sit still, students with vision impairments, and also students with hearing impairments. For students with vision impairments I will move them to the front row seats so they have a better

Attwood, Bain, ‘Contesting frontiers: history, memory and narrative in a national museum’, reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2006, pp. 103-114.

On my EdPuzzle video, I discussed the planets in our Solar System. For example, in a lesson, I would talk about the basics such as, what is a solar system and what planets are in it. Student’s homework, for example, would be going home and watching a video I created for the next day. Like what many teachers do today is try to motivate their students by reading the new topic, or additional information for the next day which is beneficial. Students can come into class with the info of what they will be learning today and have questions on hand. With videos, this is more helpful and can be fun. Instead of reading, which young students don’t like to do nowadays, they can be motivated by watching videos teachers create. To continue about my class,

Valuing and engaging students in these key areas are also the fundamental tenets of a enacting a thoughtful reconciliation pedagogy in the classroom. MacGill and Wyeld (2009) state that reconciliation pedagogies are ‘concerned with equality of recognition of Indigenous people and Australian Cultural Heritage in general’ (p. 558). It is of absolute importance, therefore, that teachers demonstrate to students the value of Indigenous knowledges through equal representation in the curriculum. By studying units on Indigenous histories, reading Indigenous stories, and learning of Indigenous customs for example, students will be introduced to a wealth of knowledge on Australia’s shared history. This does not mean simply glancing over the texts in a superficial manner, but rather to comprehensively examine Indigenous-centric resources as they would with any other, and to emphasise to students the value of such learning. Rather than see it as an ‘alternate’ or ‘other’ history, students can come to see it for what it truly is: the definitive history of Australia--our intertwined story. Recognising this fact is one of the most important requirements for true reconciliation. Beneficial to this end would be the involvement of the Indigenous community, who can help guide teachers on how to present materials, and perhaps furthermore offer events to the classroom such as story readings or insights into concepts related to Indigenous beliefs, languages and cultural

Through this experience I was able to become engaged and learn more about inquiry and the impact that inquiry provides for students.

Inquiry to me means to ask a question, that’s usually how I would use the word. However, the real definition for the term is, according to dictionary.com, it means "a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge". Which sounds fairly synonymous to my own definition and since a question is basically a request for "truth, information, and knowledge". When we say inquiry we could mean to investigate some a crime or incident for example every single bank in America got robbed at the exact same time or, something more realistic, the government had to conduct an inquiry on discrepancies in the national budget. In this case we would use the word in place of the word ''investigation''. The word originates from

This semester has been filled with informative information when speaking about our own social skill, but also other people’s social psychology as well, thus is why it will be very useful in future. Throughout the semester we studied everything from the introduction of social psychology, social influences, aggression in psychology, and interpersonal attraction and close relationships. A lot of the knowledge that I gained was not only from the “Social Psychology” textbook, but also in the videos and the reactions that we needed to come up with on a weekly basis. I like the idea of being able to watch the video to see if the experiment was successful or unsuccessful and commenting on it by giving my opinion if I agreed or not. For me,