Update June 2018

Please visit Primary and Secondary Guided Inquiry units’ pages on this blog to see some contributions from Charles Sturt University students, studying Introduction to Teacher Librarianship.  Their task was to

Updating the GI community

Hi to fellow GI fans, Just letting you know that I’ve been updating the GI Oz community, with some new GIs from Broughton College, and also from my students at

Part 6: Medieval Europe ‘Done and dusted’ – until next year!

(Alinda: Part 6 – Culminating activities of our Year 8 Medieval Europe GI classes) Medieval Day Last Friday we had a whole day of activities for all of Year 8 in

Part 5: Evaluate and Consolidate

0(Alinda: Part 5 – Concluding the ‘adventures’ of our Year 8 Medieval Europe GI classes) Step 8 Evaluate: There are two components I usually include in this step. The first

Part 4 Sharing knowledge

(Alinda: Part 4 – Continuing the ‘adventures’ of our Year 8 Medieval Europe GI classes) Step 7 Share This is the part of Guided Inquiry I love the most. At

Part 3: Gathering and Planning to Create a Masterpiece

(Alinda: Part 3 – Continuing the ‘adventures’ of our Year 8 Medieval Europe GI classes) Surely four collaboratively planned and taught Year 8 classes doing Guided Inquiry at once is

Part 2: Constructing the ‘Big Question’

(Alinda: Part 2 – Continuing the ‘adventures’ of our Year 8 Medieval Europe GI classes) Step 4 Identify – the “Big Dip” or not! By the time students have read,

Medieval Europe – Year 8 at BAC

Hello this is Alinda Sheerman – Lee Fitzgerald’s co-conspirator! I am the only Teacher Librarian and Head of Information Services at Broughton Anglican College (Pre-K to Year 12 with 1000

It’s been a bit quiet on here

Hello everyone – Alinda here… It has been a busy year and I am sure a lot has been happening with with Guided Inquiry in many schools across Australia… but it

Guided Inquiry Information Literacy Curriculum

Hi everyone! A long silence from me, as I’ve been working with  many Tls in training at CSU. This is a little break between sessions, and I’m working on a