Week 25 Act on your Plan
This inquiry is in response to the community needs for depth of learning within student inquiry and more authentic contexts for students. This led to investigation into PBL and I noted a gap in the research between providing guiding principles from Kokotsaki et al for teachers to implement effective PBL and digital integration and the actual scaffold for teachers to be effective. My hunch is that a planning framework which incorporates the research based guiding principles can gain depth, opportunities for higher order thinking, student agency and all the other benefits you can reap from PBL. The action we have taken thus far was the community of Year 5/6 teachers coming together to create this planning framework . The planning framework is robust and rigorous achieving the goals we set out. The teachers received the challenge well and I feel had the right prior classroom experience and skills to be able to work collaboratively on this. Out of 6 teachers, 5 of them particula