Male+or+Female?


 * BBI PD Session- Questioning and Connecting to Key Concepts** (25/5/10)

Thoughts about essential questions.
 * Start** (5 mins review)- Quick quiz; What are the 6 areas, what are the 8 concepts, what are the 12 attitudes, what are the 5 skills areas?
 * Part 2**- Developing effective questions to guide students' inquiry.

Step 1; Use the IB Knowledge Areas, the Key Concepts and the NZ Curriculum to outline the scope of learning for the unit. Step 2; Generate a central idea around which student led learning will take place- ensure it reflects the selected concepts Step 3; Identify what students know, what they want to learn- this is the fuel for essential question formation Step 4; Discuss the student initiated question- || ||= Student Question ||= Is the question student initiated and 'owned' by the student/ group? ||
 * = Does the question require higher order thinking? (analysis, synthesis, evaluation) ||= Does the question connect to the selected key concepts for this unit? ||= Does the question probe a matter of considerable importance within the wider central idea?
 * = Is the question unanswerable in the ultimate sense? (The student may still face some disagreement from others.)
 * = Does the question touch upon one of life's major issues? (This could be one of the IB concepts or another global concept) ||= Does the question require movement __beyond__ understanding and studying - some kind of action- pointing toward the completion of a challenge, the making of a choice or the forming of a decision? ||= Does it lead to other questions? (Often subdivisions of the original question). ||

IB- Who we are...** (We have little control of whether we cover this knowledge area- only WHEN we cover it) An exploration of the nature of the self; our beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social, and spiritual health; of our families, friends, communities, and cultures; our rights and responsibilities; of what it means to be human. Perspective (Knowledge is not constructed from only one perspective) Function (Everything has a function or way of behaving that can be investigated)
 * Example;
 * IB Key Concepts...** (We have more control over these choices)
 * New Zealand Curriculum Areas...**

In all organised social groups and networks, males and females continue to take on roles largely dictated by their genders.
 * Central Idea...**
 * What do we know? What would we like to know?

My knowledge 'frontloading'

Ideas for essential questions;** Nowadays, could any role in society be performed by any gender?