Facilitating Open Inquiry with Gifted Learners Using Wassermann’s Play-Debrief- Replay Robin Schumaker Gifted Education Coordinator, Virginia Beach City Public Schools.
[email protected] 2015 Virginia Beach City Public Schools 1 Session Goals: •To provide student-centered learning experiences for gifted students by using Wassermann’s Play-Debrief-Replay method of open inquiry. •To examine ways in which Wassermann’s Play- Debrief-Replay method of inquiry can be purposefully embedded in curriculum and instruction. 2015 Virginia Beach City Public Schools 2 • Dr. Selma Wassermann, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Professor Emerita of Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Education, author of numerous books and articles on teaching for critical thinking, creator of an iPad app called My Word! Reader, and honored by the Harvard School of Business for her leadership in promoting case method teaching. Dr. Wassermann is currently co-authoring a book about mindsets and their impact on learning, growth, and social change. *photo courtesy of thetechyteacher.com Play, Debrief, Replay is a teaching method developed by Dr. Wassermann and Dr. Ivany while they were working at Simon Fraser University. • Dr. J.W. George Ivany's field of expertise is science education. He was on the faculty of the Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York (1966- 1974), including two years as head of the Department of Science Education. He was Dean of Education at Memorial University (1974-1977). He then joined the faculty and administration of Simon Fraser University as Dean of the Faculty of Education (1977-1984) and Academic Vice- President and Provost (1984-1989). He was appointed as the University of Saskatchewan's seventh President in November 1989, and served two terms, until 1999.