Standard: Asking Questions & Solving Problems

Enduring Understandings

The learning community…

• identifies and grapples with problems as positive opportunities to learn, change, and grow.

• recognizes that asking questions nurtures a sense of wonderment.

• has the right and responsibility to ask questions and pose solutions to personal, community, and global problems.

• helps students access their inherent power and provides tools to ask questions and solve problems.

• understands that inquiry is a co-created and collaborative endeavor that contributes to transformation.

Essential Questions

• How can the learning community create curriculum that identifies and grapples with personal, community and global problems and provide positive opportunities to learn, change, and grow?

• To what extent can inquiry nurture a sense of wonderment?

• Why is it important to take personal responsibility in asking questions and posing solutions?

• To what extent are we limited in our power to ask questions and solve problems? How can we overcome limitations?

• How does working together support understanding and transformation?

• To what extent does the study in question have value beyond the classroom and how will students take this learning and own it beyond the walls of LJA?