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ISCI 794 Inquire

 
                                                           (This is an image of a stack of books that are placed to 
                                                             form a circle, like you are looking through the books)
        
    Elizabeth Lies is the librarian at Fairforest Elementary.  This is one of the biggest elementary schools in our district and is growing at a rapid rate.  Mrs. Lies has been at Fairforest for four years now, and loves to actively engage her students with inquire based learning.  She is the perfect person to talk to when exploring the competency of inquiry.  
    
    An example of her practicing and implementing the competency of inquiry is her art of perfecting her story time.  She explained that she can, just though introducing and reading a picture book, she can access students background knowledge, engage students in meaningful conversations and questions, and help her students construct new meaning to a topic.  She begins each story with a list of questions to stir up any background knowledge that students may or may not have experienced.  She said that this is so important because it allows her to not learn more about her students, but allows her to explore individual interests for future lessons.  Most of the stories that she reads helps to build new knowledge, identify a problem and how the character solves the problem.  Actively engaging her students in the story helps the students learn from her and each other no matter if there are any learning gaps.  

    Mrs. Lies uses most of her stories as a jumping point for students to solve a problem that parallels the story and allows students to create their own solution to either the same problem or a similar problem.  This allows students to take their back ground knowledge and apply it to their life in maybe a real world situation.  She uses different resource that the students can use to showcase how they would answer a certain question.  One of her main resources that she uses is technology.  She allows students to use DISCUS, Pebble Go, PowerPoint and Google Slides to come up with their own answers and be able to communicate with their peers.  I think that this is a great idea.  I know that my students love Canva, and would love to share what they discover through this program. 

    Collaboration is a key component with this competency.  Making connections between classroom activities and students knowing what the library has to offer not only helps improve the learning outcome, but gives students more opportunities to build upon thinking about strategies for solving problems.  Mr. Lies communicates with her teachers regularly to see what they are doing in the classroom so that she can enhance what they are learning in the library.  This can be a challenge due to time, but feels like it is important enough to make her best effort.  She has done many projects with 5th grade that includes the second industrial revolution where students learn about inventions that came about during that time, and then students take what they learned and create a new invention of their own.  

  

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