Hi Matthew. Thank you for sharing your work on this – and congratulations for managing to achieve your goal of integrating your media skills into cotaught units. We’ll all be really interested to hear how that goes, which subjects you are collaborating with and what you find works better and what less well when coteaching. We’ve generally tended towards integrating inquiry into classroom subjects where possible because we have found that it is easier for students to see the importance and relevance of what they are doing when it is embedded in another subject* – and it is a good opportunity to help colleagues to integrate inquiry into their own practice, even beyond the collaboration. However it does come with its own challenges (such as shared ownership of classes and needing to negotiate time, learning objectives and assessment). Once you get going we would love to hear how your experience of shifting work that you have developed in a stand alone course into co-taught units, and perhaps how the opportunity to develop some of the lessons and ideas in your standalone course first feeds into your collaboration.
(*the main exception for me being EPQ and HPQ, where inquiry IS the subject in its own right, but is leant direction and purpose by the qualification at the end).
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