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A 60-minute Masterclass on the foundations of writing Conceptual Understandings and designing questions that drive inquiry
Join Rachel French for a focused, practical masterclass on writing strong generalizations and designing conceptual questions that support inductive inquiry. You will explore the difference between inductive and deductive teaching, apply clear criteria to strengthen your generalizations, and learn four practical tests for checking whether each conceptual question aligns with the understanding students will construct.
Wednesday 23rd of September at 08:00 UTC
with Rachel French
Strong Understandings, Powerful Questions
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- Writing conceptual understandings simply to fill a box in your unit planner, without seeing how they shape teaching and learning?
- Listing factual and conceptual questions in your planner but rarely using them to drive the learning experiences?
- Unsure whether your conceptual questions align with the generalizations students should construct?
- Supporting teachers to strengthen the conceptual understandings and guiding questions in their units?
- Seeking practical ways to move beyond telling students the understanding and create an inductive pathway through which they can construct it for themselves?
Explore the differences between inductive and deductive teaching and consider when each approach can support learning. Discover how inductive teaching engages students in examining examples, identifying patterns and constructing conceptual understandings, while purposeful teacher guidance ensures they develop the knowledge and skills needed to think deeply and accurately.
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Refine your understanding
Examine what makes a generalization conceptually strong, transferable, accurate and appropriately challenging. Diagnose common problems and learn how to revise statements that are factual, vague, overly broad or limited to one topic or context.
Learn a practical four-part process for evaluating the strength of your conceptual questions. Identify where questions and generalizations need refinement and leave with a reliable method for designing questions that promote deeper thinking and support students to construct meaningful, transferable understanding.
Discover why each generalization needs an aligned conceptual question and how answering that question before teaching can reveal whether the two genuinely match. Learn to identify when a question leads toward a different understanding, gives too much away or needs to be revised to create a clear pathway for student thinking.
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The criteria for a strong COnceptual Understandings
Join us to DISCOVER:
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Four practical tests for stronger conceptual questions
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The difference between inductive and deductive teaching
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How to align conceptual questions with generalizations
Meet your Presenter,
Rachel French
Founder of Professional Learning International and an accomplished international educator, workshop facilitator, consultant, and author, Rachel has been leading innovative curriculum design and transforming how educators teach, and students learn for over 12 years.
Mentored by the founders of Concept-Based Curriculum themselves, Dr. Lynn Erickson and Dr. Lois Lanning, Rachel was entrusted with the exclusive worldwide rights to offer the Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction (CBCI) Trainer Certification—the certification that kick-started her journey into Concept-Based Inquiry and inspired her own approach to the pedagogy.
Today, Rachel’s mission is to help other educators transform their classrooms and schools as she did hers through hands-on programs, immersive events, and free resources.
Your Masterclass Presenter
A strong generalization clarifies the understanding that matters. An aligned conceptual question invites students into the thinking required to construct it.
Leave with practical criteria, four powerful question tests and a clear process you can immediately apply to your own unit planner.