Reply To: Year 12 (Grade 11) Interrobang!? Inquiry Course @ Blanchelande College
The aim of the course was to equip the students for independent study in the sixth form and to introduce skills that many of them would need on their courses. The expectation was that they would need further support in subject specific contexts when they met these skills again later in their courses, but that everyone would at least be starting from the same firm foundation. In choosing the skills to focus on we were aware of time constraints – 3 hours of instruction with 3 hours of homework to practise – and also of resource limitations. Given we were giving them a completely free choice of topic it was unrealistic to expect them all to be able to use library books (there wasn’t time to buy in any specialist stock to cover gaps in our collection, even if this was practical or desirable for a short term project such as this). We therefore decided to focus on using online resources for the Investigate part of the course.
You can download a copy of the scheme of work here. First page shown in image below.
I will post more detail about individual sessions shortly.
