Over the last six months, my inquiry learning knowledge has grown. At the beginning I felt quite lost and unsure about how inquiry learning could be used in my music classroom. I quickly found out that it was possible, and it could be used in my classroom and curriculum area. After investigating inquiry learning in music classrooms through assignment 1, I was able to answer the questions I had at the start – one major question I had was how can inquiry learning be used in a music classroom? Through this investigation and journey my confidence grew and I knew I was doing something right and my students would benefit from this type of learning! During assignment 2 and implementing the theories and concepts of inquiry learning into a unit of work, I was able to put these theories into practice. I feel that I have a thorough understanding of the levels of inquiry and understand the stages students need to go through in order to complete the process. I found that I could really relate and use the expressive window and transformative window from Mandy Lupton’s GeSTE windows model within my teaching and inquiry unit. The questioning frameworks assisted in scaffolding learning and the inquiry stages for the students. Designing the unit and using these frameworks, theories, models and concepts helped cement my understanding and now I feel confident enough to be able to implement inquiry learning into other units I am teaching.
In continuing my inquiry learning journey, I would like to investigate how to implement an inquiry learning unit into a junior music classroom (year 7-9) and still fit within Australian Curriculum requirements. There seem to be quite a few examples of other subject areas or examples from other countries, so I would like to explore it within our curriculum standards. I would like to implement authentic inquiry-based units throughout the junior program, at least one a year to get the students practicing questioning, inquiry re-search and community engagement. If I end up finding answers to this latest question, be sure I will be posting about it on here!
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My Inquiry Learning Journey 