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I’ve learned quite a bit in this course, and finish the course with more curiosity than I came with. This is fitting, of course, because curiosity is one of the main process skills developed by students in an effective inquiry-based learning environment. Click to continue »

This week’s readings and activities were not all directly about inquiry. We focused on the backward design and the 5Es. As the week went on, I saw more of a connection to inquiry. Now I feel that this was an important week for me to grasp more completely how I might apply what I’ve learned about inquiry to lessons in my classroom, with some certainty that my inquiry activities are well planned. Click to continue »

This week’s readings and activities were a bit of a breakthrough for me … finally, a focus on communication. As an English teacher, this is refreshing. It’s interesting and important to learn about the inquiry process and the types of inquiry and inquiry questions, but it’s particularly applicable to teaching English when we start focusing on what we will be communicating. Click to continue »

After four weeks of studying inquiry based learning, I’m beginning to understand it a bit better. Of the main ideas and concepts so far, one stands out to me as being particularly essential to my understanding. It is the different types of inquiry, and levels of openness of inquiry. Although these concepts were from week three, the week four activities of developing questions based on concepts in the content standard frameworks made it real for me. Click to continue »

This has been a very interesting week in EDIM 513 Inquiry Based Learning. I’ve enjoyed the lively discussion and interesting learning activities. What have stood out to me this week as being particularly important are the examples of inquiry activities, such as the video we watched of the science teacher in upstate New York. Click to continue »

I’m glad we have this opportunity to reflect on the week in our inquiry based learning course. This week we began applying some of the basic concepts of inquiry to our teaching areas by presenting a description of a learning activity and discussing how it might be enhanced by including some of the abilities and understandings of inquiry. We also discussed ideas for building in our classrooms the kind of communities where inquiry thrives. Click to continue »

For a good while now I’ve valued inquiry-based learning, even though I do not have a deep background of experience facilitating or learning about it. Just the idea that students would have burning questions that would fuel an in-depth investigation, reshaping their perceptions of the world around them, is exciting to me.

The questions and doubts I harbor follow. Click to continue »