Enquiring Minds Meeting

Meeting today to look at ideas and begin planning for the second term's set of lessons for the Enquiring Minds classes next year. The first term will be about gathering information about the pupils lives. The second term is to pose a question based on this information and guide the pupils through a method of enquiry based initially on the TASC wheel of learning.
It was a good meeting, lots of discussion about our doubts and concerns. Then we worked in groups and posed a question and tried to quickly work through the wheel. How would it work in a class? Interesting discussions about the nature of questions themselves and what would be the most effective question to allow an effective, in-depth line of enquiry.
Last night I was preparing myself for the meeting by researching some of the key terms listed in the agenda given. Co-constructing threw up this wonderful blog that is well worth a look.
I'll be googleing these words too:
community building
deconstructing
empowering
philosophizing
problem-solving
re-enforcing
scaffolding
These words supposedly represent what is that special extra about the Enquiring Minds teacher. Let's hope that I'm up to the descriptors.