Monday, September 7, 2009

Action Research Wonderings

How has learning about inquiry and creating a 'wondering' influenced the way in which you think about what you see at your PDS?
Learning about inquiry and thinking about 'wonderings' influences my time at my PDS dramatically. Before this year, I don't think I really understood what inquiry was, but have 'wondered' about things during other volunteer hours. Now that I am aware of inquiry I not only catch myself at my PDS wondering about certain things, but thinking about my wonderings and ways to go about understanding the wonderings. I also think of ways to change the situation so that the wonderings are no longer there or so that I think of new wonderings. I never realized how detailed a person's wonderings can be.
Often when I think of a wondering, I think of how I may have felt as a student sitting in a classroom. But also often times, I think of how my past teachers may have felt and how I feel at the present time. I try to converge these feelings together to accomplish the best strategy for testing my wondering and finding an appropriate result or answer. I have found that being a teacher or being a student can be difficult and the relationship between the two needs to be understanding of one another to help achieve the best teaching strategies.
I think teaching is a complex process and teachers should continue to wonder everyday. Teachers can improve themselves and the learning of their students from wondering and testing their wonderings.

1 comment:

  1. Wonderings are definitely a good way for teachers to learn new things about actually teaching. I find myself also wondering about how I felt when I was a student and also, how my students are going to feel when I am a teacher. I often wonder what kind of teacher I am going to be and I try to learn from my PDS teacher and hopefully I'll take some of her teaching strategies with me when I leave her classroom.

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