{"id":282238,"date":"2023-01-18T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=282238"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:03:38","slug":"looking-back-to-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/01\/18\/looking-back-to-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back to Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100+<\/p>\n<p>Running (like learning) is a step at a time. I&#8217;ll begin each post with numbers showing my cumulative distance this year.<\/p>\n<p>On one of my runs, I was struck with a wave of nostalgia about what I was doing a decade ago. I was teaching at an elementary\/junior high school in Japan. My students were learning reading, writing, maths, science, and social studies; however, inquiry and reflection were not a part of that school&#8217;s culture. For sure, students asked questions and reflected on their progress. Unfortunately, most students reflected individually at home. Contrast that distinction to what we do at ABIS.<\/p>\n<p>Students began an initial inquiry into space and the G5 teachers: Rachel, Khadija, Magz, and I worked with them to start research with robust, open-ended questions. This is as much art in carefully crafting a research question as there is hard work. There were many more more useless, close-ended questions than the questions we have now. Here are three gems. Who owns the moon? What reasons are black holes important? How should we continue exploring space: manned or unmanned projects?<\/p>\n<p>Students constantly reflect on their progress. At the end of many lessons, I use a protocol: Know, Be, Use. What did you learn? What approach to learning helped you do this? What learner profile quality guided your work? For this latest reflection and all those to come, I&#8217;ll include these questions as one way to students to transfer their verbal fluency into written expression. It&#8217;s just one simple way for us to put IB principles into practice.<\/p>\n<p>As with all learning and teaching (and people-powered adventures), it&#8217;s a process. Here are a few photographs of how students distinguished between science facts and science fiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/IMG_9398-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-282268 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/IMG_9398-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/IMG_9397-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-282267 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/IMG_9397-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>100+ Running (like learning) is a step at a time. I&#8217;ll begin each post with numbers showing my cumulative distance this year. On one of my runs, I was struck with a wave of nostalgia about what I was doing a decade ago. I was teaching at an elementary\/junior high school in Japan. 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