SOLO is a true hierarchic taxonomy - increasing in quantity and quality of thought
* SOLO identifies five stages of understanding. Each stage embraces the previous level but adds something more.
* SOLO is a powerful tool in differentiating curriculum and providing cognitive challenge for learners
* SOLO allows teachers and learners to ask deeper questions without creating new ones
* SOLO is a powerful metacognitive tool
# Confirmation/Verification - students confirm a principle through a prescribed activity when the results are known in advance.
# Structured Inquiry - students investigate a teacher-presented question through a prescribed procedure.
# Guided Inquiry - students investigate a teacher-presented question using student designed/selected procedures.
# Open Inquiry - students investigate topic-related questions that are student formulated through student designed/selected procedures.
RELLCO is made up of four New Zealand Primary Schools: Lynmore, Owhata, Rotokawa and Lake Rotoma. This is our collaborative resource base to assist us as we journey into our new 21st century learning contract together. Please use this site to share, support, communicate, discuss and celebrate your learning.
We have had a lot of requests for an article that summarises the transition to the new education paradigm. This article will introduce the general community to the new education paradigm.
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This wiki is a sharing platform and will contain many online resources
that will assist in implementing the inquiry process in the classroom/school.
Five Whys is the Japanese philosophy of repeatedly asking why to find not only the direct sources of your problems, but also the root of those sources. It's about thinking long-term and looking both ahead and behind, not just in the present.