June Reflections

Today brings me to our second IBL meeting.

I am almost at the end of teaching my geography unit.  A lot of work in planning and hoping I'm on the right track.  During the planning it was difficult to use all of the components needed to bring the learning and curriculum outcomes to the classroom successfully.

However, as I have taught the unit, I can see the benefits of inquiry based teaching in leading us to the outcomes we needed and leading them to these outcomes in a way that the students have found really engaging.  I have had to mix some direct teaching into my unit as well, but together with the IBL strategies I have come up with a unit that I consider to be ....

I'm now looking forward to reflecting on the unit and fine tuning it so that next year I can hopefully teach an even more improved IBL unit.

I'm also hoping that I have collected enough artifacts!  During the last few weeks of my unit this is something I will need to concentrate on.