What does it mean to be an enquiring practitioner?
I believe an enquiring practitioner to be someone who is always keen to seek the answer of something which has a logical explanation and can be defined. They would always go out to find the solution which has the most solid evidence.
What does this imply for us as a student teacher?
It is important for us to be enquiring practitioners as student teachers due to this helping us to ensure that we striving to always give our students the correct facts. By ensuring that the information we are supplying to our children is backed up we then guarantee that they are receiving genuine materials. When children come to school there is an expectation that they will leave with a bounty of palpable knowledge that they can build on through life. We, as teachers, would be letting the children down if the information we taught them wasn’t based on fact; hadn’t been researched or couldn’t be proved. It is highly important we supply them with an assortment of knowledge to make sure that they have a diverse insight into many areas of the curriculum. I believe by providing the young people with as much of a rounded understanding as possible this will help discourage ignorance due to them gaining a knowledge of things they may never have come into contact with or be aware of in their normal environment.
Lauren, your post is informative and gives a number of good argument for what this means for us as student teachers. The chart is also useful as a quick summary of Practitioner Enquiry. However, I would perhaps consider some of the benefits and challenges of Practitioner Enquiry.
Thanks Robbie, I appreciate both your praise and your criticism. I’ve taken on board the fact that I need to go back and have a further look at he advantages and disadvantages of the Practitioner Enquiry and will do so and edit my post to display the knowledge I have found.