Inquiry Cycle/Board Reflections ( 2024) by Jodi Fidone

Difficult/SLAY--QUEEN/Goal(s)

jlfidone — 2025-02-23 19:14:10 UTC

Please respond by using your name, and then tell us what is difficult, what parts you SLAY, and what steps you are going to take to make your goal a reality! :)

Bright

jrbright — 2025-02-25 16:52:44 UTC

I think I do a decent job at provocation or the tuning in piece of the inquiry cycle. I am okay at sorting out (making deeper connections to real life situations).

I would like to better in all areas, but focus reflecting on our work at the end to sum up students learning.

Hospodka

slhospodka — 2025-02-25 22:05:03 UTC

As my inquiry cycle is a work in progress, I feel I am "slaying-ish" tuning in, sorting out (making connections; hand signals for all concepts), and action (padlet for parents to contribute action). I feel I need to continue to grow my going further and reflection. We do a lot of reflecting, however I want to learn how I can do more and have it be intentional and something we can share with parents.

Graeff

dcgraeff — 2025-02-26 20:59:12 UTC

I think I'm doing a decent job being open minded and taking EVERYTHING in and adapting while learning IB. I have ideas for next year that I can't wait to implement. I'd like to have a better understanding of everything but can't wait for the training in May to dive deeper into it.

Rands

2025-02-26 21:51:29 UTC

I think I do well with putting up evidence and circling back to student questions that we brainstormed during the tuning in. I want to do a better job with making connections to other content areas.

I think as a team, we do well with planning time at the end of each LOI to plan for reflection and students showing their work.

Heineman

anheineman — 2025-02-27 22:42:04 UTC

I think I do a great job encouraging students to make connections across subject areas using our Board of Inquiry. I also feel that I excel (SLAY) at sparking curiosity when introducing a new unit. However, I want to improve at integrating the specified concepts into our daily routine and vocabulary. Next year, I plan to spend more time at the beginning of each unit explicitly explaining these concepts and ensuring they are displayed more effectively in the classroom.

Srb

2025-02-28 12:21:38 UTC

Srb

I do well with displaying student created work to serve as visual resources for

students. Our IB Inquiry board incorporates learning from various content areas. I often refer to the contents on the board to help the students understand its purpose. I have tried both a circular and linear type of display board to help create an understanding of the Inquiry Cycle. This has been a work in progress because and I am not yet “sold” on the most effective way to make it developmentally appropriate for K kids. I want to focus on integrating the specified concept into our daily routine to create effective visuals for students to better express their understanding of these terms.

Bertagni

lbertagni — 2025-03-01 18:57:05 UTC

I think I post student work/photographs showing students working under the Sorting Out section of the Inquiry Cycle well. Going Further is hard for second graders to initiate but I feel I provide Pebble Go activities that go beyond the Lines of Inquiry to take the students further in their learning of the Central Idea. I need to work on student questioning by providing time and guiding students to ask questions. This is hard for second graders to do independently without reminders.

Leibrock

2025-03-02 23:37:36 UTC

I think I do well with applying inquiry across the curriculum. I also think this year, my students and I have worked hard to think conceptually and to display how the concepts connect to our learning. I need to work on displaying more of our process on the walls. We do well with electronically recording it all, and sending examples home. However, we need to copy and show more on our inquiry walls. I plan to have students define and show their thoughts about the words "Sharing the Planet" this week on our inquiry board. One step at a time!

Hall

2025-03-04 02:46:50 UTC

I think I am doing a better job posting evidence on the inquiry board that we refer to more often than before. I also am having success with students posting more evidence on Seesaw for each unit of inquiry so we have lots of student work to reflect on at the end of the planner. I want to focus on integrating the specified concepts more naturally in our daily learning.

Couture

2025-03-04 05:05:54 UTC

I think -with the help of my team- that I do a great job of sharing student knowledge/evidence connected to our lines of inquiry. Our formative assessments throughout the lessons really show student learning. I want to redo my Inquiry Cycle next year to not be so "rigid" and take away the defined sections. This will help me be more responsive to labeling the evidence on our UOI wall.

Winter

2025-03-05 17:53:53 UTC

I think I do well with posting our trail of learning in each UOI onto our inquiry board and also referring to it with students. This helps my students review the content and big ideas. I could do better of letting my students have more agency in what goes on our board and have them be thinkers to where it goes. I'm also doing better of making it cross curricular and connecting other subject areas into our units and showing those on our inquiry board. Reading seems to be the easiest in this area, so a goal would be to now connect other curricular areas.

Roche

2025-03-06 20:16:47 UTC

I think we as a team have done well at having the students add their work to the inquiry board. We reflect after each line of inquiry and have students add evidence to the board as a class and sort which phase of the inquiry cycle they think the evidence fits with.

I struggle with how to encourage students to take action on our unit of inquiry. I wonder if giving time or an assignment for them to take action (similar to what we do for exhibition) would be beneficial.

Conahan

2025-03-06 22:00:36 UTC

I think I do a good job of displaying student work and pictures of each of the parts of the unit of inquiry cycle! I take a LOT of pictures and print them for the wall. One part I want to work on is breaking it down by line of inquiry to be more specific about the evidence on my wall!

Safary

2025-03-08 03:17:25 UTC

I think I'm doing a better job at posting evidence on the our classroom inquiry board and having the students reflect back on it. However, I feel like I need to do/make more time for students to post more evidence in their Seesaw IB portfolio.

Rezac

2025-03-11 19:28:39 UTC

I try to post student in all areas of the inquiry cycle. Particularly, I am strong at tuning in, sorting out, and making sense. I make it a goal to always strongly intro the central idea and lines of inquiry- really breaking them down so students understand the vocabulary and and the shell of the unit. I will work to integrate the key concepts better.

Crites

cccrites — 2025-03-12 18:15:46 UTC

I feel as though I do a decent job (kind of slay) with tuning in, finding out, and sorting out. I struggle with going further and making conclusions. Depending on the unit, my kids do an ok job with taking action. I need to model and encourage students to take action. Posting evidence used to be one of my strengths at the end of each unit of inquiry. Lately I struggle with finding time to sufficiently post. I plan on scheduling time to add my evidence at the end of each unit of inquiry.

Lockhart

2025-03-13 15:33:58 UTC

I think I do okay at including all areas of the cycle on our board, but i have always struggled at getting the kids more involved in that process. It's their work, but me selecting and putting it up there. I also want to continue to work on including the concepts into everything that we do. I have done better in previous years - not so much this year. Always a goal!

Edquist

maedquist — 2025-03-16 22:02:00 UTC

I feel like I do a good job connecting to other subject areas. It really helped to have the concept training last year because it opened ideas to add to my planners. I do like my linear display of my IB Inquiry Board, but I really need to work harder at adding student work and taking pictures as we are working on a planner.

Clegg

amclegg — 2025-03-17 15:33:12 UTC

I love using the inquiry board to display student work and connect the unit to the learner profiles and concepts. It is a great visible reminder of what we have studied and learned. I would like to improve with using concepts across the curriculum and throughout the day rather than just during Units of Inquiry