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Co-leaders of Networks of Inquiry and Innovation and the Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network
The spiral of inquiry is an innovative movement aimed at changing people's way of learning, and has been proven to improve academic results. The programme has been run in schools in British Columbia, Canada, among other countries, achieving positive results in all cases. For example, in British Columbia it managed to bring about a high in the number of people aged over 25 with more than two years of post-secondary education. What is more, the results are even more encouraging among students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
1. Scan. The learners play a key role here. You have to talk to them to know what they want to learn and why they think what they learn will be useful.
2. Focus. You have to determine what the key questions are, choosing the area that will create the greatest impact.
3. Hunch. We need to think about potential actions or solutions based on our gut feelings, hunches that come from our professional experience and knowledge of reality. "What would happen if we did that?"
4. New learning. We learn new things following the previous points, which leads to progress. Teamwork is particularly important in this.
5. Act. You have to decide what you want to change, what to do differently in order to make that change, and then start to act.
6. Check. We need to choose indicators that will tell us if we're doing well.
It's fundamental that it be led by people who are interested in building networks of innovation and inquiry. As more improvements are made, more people want to get involved, until the will to act becomes widespread.
It can't be imposed. Work based on investigation and discovery has to be voluntary. Actions are required to motivate people, such as celebrations and get-togethers. The work done also needs to be rewarded. The people involved have to feel proud of what they're doing.
Dialogue is needed, question others and listen to everyone, not just a few people. You also need to share experiences and learn to extrapolate other people's actions.
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