This was a very interesting session, which I was very grateful to have uploaded for later watching because I wasn’t able to make it on Friday. The most useful thing I got from this session was the different stages of inquiry. We talk a lot about inquiry in all my classes, but I was never exactly sure on how to begin introducing inquiry in my teaching, without jumping straight into an undirected free inquiry. I feel like that could be quite intimidating for students at a younger age, or those not used to inquiry based projects. I think a scaffolded approach would be best to slowly introduce inquiry so that students can have build their confidence to the level of doing practically entirely self-directed projects, without feeling lost or confused. I also was interested by the idea that any age level can be introduced to inquiry learning. I guess I had always thought of it as something that would only begin to be possible at a late elementary/early high school level, but now I realize that teacher-guided inquiry can begin as soon as children start learning. In fact, with the new emphasis on inquiry, I’m sure that children will be introduced to it sooner and master the skill at younger ages, which I think is an exciting idea for what we will be able to achieve in students’ learning in years to come.