Family of Pedagogies

By Peju Okungbowa

BOB THE BUILDER

HAPPY HELPERS

DORA THE EXPLORER CURIOUS GEORGE

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 Family of Pedagogies
1. Inquiry Based Learning
2. Project Based Learning
3. Place Based Education
4. Service Learning

Which method does your character depict?

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 Objectives
1. Use simulation to explore different ways
of creating differentiated lessons through
diverse learning models.
2. Apply four models of teaching to our
context and discuss what will work and
what might need adaptation.
3. Reflect and share our practices through
the lenses of the four models.

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Cohort Activities – 10 minutes
1. Curious George: Make a list of some open end ended
and closed questions that comes to your mind when you
read the central idea, lines of inquiry and transdisciplinary
theme on the planner before you.

2. Bob the Builder: Read the central question first and

create a flower vase (s) or pencil holder (s) from the plastic
bottles on your table.

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 Cohort Activities
3. Dora the explorer: Take a walk around the school and
identify a location where can create a nature trail for
students to observe and understand nature while learning
about how living things need each other to survive and how
we can care for the environment.

4. Happy Helpers: Design the content of a public

enlightenment program for IITA radio to educate the public
on how to dispose materials mindfully.

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 Inquiry Based Learning
1. We don’t teach children to be inquirers, it’s a natural trait
that we only harness.
2. Every inquiry classroom begins with the teacher. How
curious are you to learn new things about the unit you
are teaching?
3. Creating an inquiry classroom requires some degree of
humility.
4. As teachers we have the power to squash or nurture the
natural curiosity in our students. They must feel entitled
to ask and seek.

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 Project Based Learning
1. PBL is a set of learning experiences that guide students
toward answering a question, solving a problem or
meeting a challenge.
2. Don’t go crazy.” It’s easy to go too big when you first
start with PBL.
3. PBL is not just about creating physical products alone
but could also involve other intellectually challenging
tasks like research, writing, discussion and oral
presentation.
4. PBL can work for all students.

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 Place Based Education
1. PBE is the process of using the local community to teach
concepts in language arts, math, social studies, science
and other subjects across the curriculum.
2. PBE emphasizes hands-on, real world learning
experiences.
3. PBE is more than field trips but experiential learning.
When you take students on field trips, encourage them to
be participants not just observers.
4. PBE is all about using our environment as our text books.

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 PBE IN ACTION

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 Service Learning
1. SL is a learning strategy that combines academics with
social education to meet real needs and requires
application of knowledge and skills .
2. SL connects school based curriculum with caring for the
community.
3. SL promotes learning about important issues, informing
others, engaging in advocacy, organizing and taking
individual and collaborative action.
4. SL may require more planning than regular lessons but as
you become more comfortable with the practice it will be
easier.

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Service Learning in Action

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 Conclusion
We can bring new
possibilities into our
classrooms as we explore
familiar and unfamiliar models
of teaching to create more
engaging lessons for our
students.
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References
1.Community Works Press, 2005. CONNECTING SERVICE
LEARNING TO THE CURRICULUM
2. Sobel. D. 2004. PLACE BASED EDUCATION -
CONNECTING CLASSROOMS & COMMUNITIES
3. Ostroff. W. 2016. CULTIVATING CURIOSITY IN K-12
CLASSROOMS
4.Larmer. J. 2009. PROJECT BASED LEARNING STARTER
KIT
5. Pictures – web images
6. IB Professional development :
http://d2sogmhdubry8r.cloudfront.net/MYP+nanos/Service+as
+action+-
+English/index.html#/page/5b1f94ee764adc34c526379a

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Acknowledgement
Slides presented by Peju
Okungbowa at The
International School of IITA
in-service professional
development workshop.

4th September 2019

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