Hi Shonda
You wrote
"Ours is a traditional "lecture---take notes" situation, so introducing
planned research that starts with a great question is new."
While you are turning them on their sides, why not turn them on their heads
and before they do anything ask them what lifelong learnings they want the
students to gain through the assignment. What knowledge, understandings,
concepts, skills, values and attitudes do they want the kids to take with
them and remember and use five years from now?
When they have worked that out then ask them about how this assignment will
achieve that. That way they get a real reason for the big question that the
kids can work on as well as the reasons for the study that can be made
explicit to the kids. If the kids understand why they are doing all this
work there is a greater chance of them doing it and getting some personal
value from it apart from a subjective grade on a paper.
This approach is described by a number of people but I think it is summed up
by Stephen Covey - "Begin with the end in mind!"
Barbara
Barbara Braxton
Teacher-Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA
T. 61 2 6205 6162
F. 61 2 6205 7242
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au
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