The workshop gives insights into approaches to developing statements of inquiry in highly performing STEM classes, and based on our experience of astronomy curriculum development in 2006-2022.
To develop a didactically consistent curriculum, we often follow the way human understanding was evolving. In class we tend to relate to personalities of scientists, discuss conjectures, figure out the challenges they were facing, study their experiments in details and even celebrate their success. At the talk we will discuss opening questions which were used in our curriculum to introduce new topics, and their further methodological implementation, and will focus on historical experiments as core part of the astronomy curriculum.

About Dmitrii Ostriakov

I got my Master's in the field of space physics from St Petersburg State Polytechnic University. After graduation I decided to become an educator and by now I've been working in education for more than 20 years. Started my career back in 2003, I worked in 2006-2022 as an astronomy teacher at a high school for gifted students (The School for Physics and Technology after Zhores Alferov, St Petersburg). Being challenged by the lack of learning materials on astronomy, I had to develop my own curriculum to better meet high demands of students. At some point I became the head of the boarding school department. Trainer of medal winners at regional, national and international Olympiads on astronomy. Teach maths at international schools since 2022.