{"id":481,"date":"2014-11-20T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:37:24","slug":"inference-the-interdisciplinary-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/2014\/11\/20\/inference-the-interdisciplinary-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Inference the Interdisciplinary Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ewan Shanks, P7 class teacher at Carron PS has been developing his pupils’ understanding of inference by linking literacy and art.<\/p>\n

Ewan explored and built on existing pupil understanding\u00a0\u00a0by asking them to analyse images of Scottish inventors (their class topic as context). \"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ewan found that his pupils could say and write their thoughts. (see one group’s example on the right.) However, they found it difficult to say how they were able to make these statements. Ewan used\u00a0 questioning to\u00a0increase pupil\u00a0awareness of how they were picking up on the clues around the people in their picture, its composition, the objects which were visible, etc.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pupils were then asked to create a self-portrait using a simple interior composition (see left). At first,\u00a0the children were too obvious with the clues they added to their pictures. Through careful questioning and discussion though, they were soon able to be infer information about their likes\/dislikes, character traits, etc in a more subtle way.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To broaden and challenge\u00a0pupil understanding even more,\u00a0Ewan\u00a0then played his primary 7 pupils various pieces of music to explore the ideas and images this suggested to them. He used\u00a0various listening exercises and a\u00a0staged process (see storyboard\u00a0on the left)\u00a0to build up to a creative writing text which demonstrated that pupils could use inference themselves. Click here <\/a>to read one of the children’s stories. (You will also see the success criteria rubric Ewan and his class use as part of their assessment of and for learning)<\/p>\n

As you might imagine, the children were very engaged by this whole process, and were able to demonstrate their understanding in a range of ways, as can be seen above. This is a\u00a0great example of\u00a0deep and creative learning in literacy of course, but it is also a very clever use of type 1 interdisciplinary learning. By\u00a0showing pupils\u00a0the\u00a0natural overlaps and common features in written, drawn\/photographed and musical texts, Ewan helped develop deep understanding of inference,\u00a0AND higher order skills transferable across literacy and the expressive arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ewan Shanks, P7 class teacher at Carron PS has been developing his pupils’ understanding of inference by linking literacy and art. Ewan explored and built on existing pupil understanding\u00a0\u00a0by asking them to analyse images of Scottish inventors (their class topic as context). \u00a0 Ewan found that his pupils could say and write their thoughts. (see …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4361],"tags":[4370,405,4345,2378,4022,4369,2161,2539,2543,4391,4348,4462,92,4463],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interdiscriplinary-learning","tag-application","tag-art","tag-breadth","tag-challenge","tag-connected-learning","tag-contexts","tag-creativity","tag-depth","tag-engagement","tag-enjoyment","tag-primary-idl","tag-scottish-context","tag-teaching","tag-type-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}