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| Overview: |
To celebrate the release of the second edition of Kath Murdoch’s treasured book ‘The Power of Inquiry”, Chapters International is hosting a weekend workshop designed to support teachers in strengthening their understanding and application of inquiry – from designing high-quality journeys of inquiry, engaging inquiry-based lessons to the day to day teaching strategies and ‘moves’ that support learners to be active and effective inquirers.
This workshop is designed to meet the needs of anyone wanting to understand this powerful pedagogy more deeply – whether they are new to the approach or experienced.
Over the course of two practical days, participants will be immersed in exploring the following questions:
- How can we design learning experiences that build the critical research and thinking skills needed to navigate a growing dependence on AI and ‘instant’ answers to complex problems?
- What role does ‘explicit teaching’ have within an inquiry-based approach? How can we provide explanation, demonstration, modelling and scaffolding as part of this approach while ensuring learners have plenty of opportunity for exploration and meaning making.
- What does it really mean to use a ‘cycle of inquiry’ to guide the design and implementation of learning experiences for young people? How do we ensure the process is flexible rather than fixed?
- Inquiry is about being responsive to learner’s needs and interests. How can we plan in a way that truly supports responsive teaching?
- What are some of the common ‘moves’ teachers make when they use an inquiry approach? What strategies are most effective? What language supports children to be more agentic and confident as inquirers?
- How can we design inquiry journeys to power up the dispositions and skills needed for life-long learning – including curiosity, collaboration and creativity? How do we make ensure this is intentional and explicit?
- How can we make the learning visible? What role does documentation play for learners and teachers?
- How can we bring an inquiry stance to teaching and learning across the day – not simply in ‘units’?
With 17 published books and over 40 years of experience working with students and teachers in schools all over the world, Kath Murdoch is regarded as a true leader in the field of inquiry learning. Throughout the workshop, she will share practical and recent examples of inquiry in action – ensuring teachers walk always with a plan for immediate implementation. |
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| Potential Audience: |
| PK-year to Grade 8 teachers |
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| About Kath Murdoch |
Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, author, university lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years in schools throughout the world. With a focus on early childhood and primary education, she is widely respected as a leader in the field of inquiry based learning and integrative curriculum in which she has taught, researched and published for over 30 years.
Kath began her professional life as a classroom teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Her fascination in how students' constructed their understandings - and her interest in the way questions and big ideas could drive curriculum soon led to a passion for integrative and inquiry based methodologies. This passion has become a career-long focus for teaching, research and writing and the methodologies in which Kath specialises are now central to curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world - including the popular International Baccalaureate, PYP program.
Critical to Kath’s success is her continued involvement in classroom teaching. Whether it is to demonstrate techniques, coach teachers or build her own repertoire of practices, Kath is committed to regular and ongoing work with students. Her classroom work and research feeds a dynamic and ever-evolving expertise in the area of integrative and inquiry-based learning.
Kath’s professional development offerings are diverse. They range from intensive partnerships with schools to develop inquiry programs and practices over several years through to one-day workshops for beginning or experienced inquiry teachers. Whether in her home town of Melbourne or on the other side of the world, working with a team or speaking to a packed auditorium Kath's style is refreshingly practical, inclusive and always connected to the real world of teaching. |
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| Venue: |
| Wellington College International Shanghai |
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| Hotel Detail: |
Shangri-La Qiantan Shanghai
上海前滩香格里拉酒店
No.551 Haiyang West Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai
上海市浦东新区海阳西路551号
(86 21) 5030 8888
Artyzen Habitat Qiantan Shanghai
上海前滩雅辰悦居酒店
596 West Yangsi Road, Pudong, Shanghai, P.R. China, 200126
上海市浦东新区杨思西路596号
(86 21) 5027 8888
Artyzen New Bund 31 Shanghai
上海前滩31雅辰酒店
666 West Haiyang Road, Pudong, Shanghai
上海市浦东新区海阳西路 666 弄 20 号
(86 21) 2058 9999
KIMPTON Qiantan Shanghai
上海金普顿前滩酒店
Block 9, Lane 199 Qiantan Avenue, Pudong District, Shanghai
上海市浦东新区前滩大道 199 弄 9 号
(86 21) 2086 9999 |
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| Timings: |
8.30 am to 3.30 pm
Registration at 8.00 am on 13th March 2027 |
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| Investment |
USD 750 Early Bird offer Till 1st November 2026
USD 850 Closing Date 1st March 2027
Includes: Certificate of Participation for 16 Professional Development Hours, Lunch and 2 coffee breaks.
A copy of the second, updated edition of The Power of Inquiry |
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