Advantages Of Inquiry Based Learning

In today’s classrooms, schools and educational settings, teachers and educators are overloaded with the responsibility to produce data, analyse students learning and development and assess this against the National Quality Framework outcomes, the Australian curriculum and State Curriculum and Standards. With this high demand each day, teachers and educators need to find a way to best utilise their time with their students’ and use strategies and learning approaches to get the most out of the learning experiences. By integrating an inquiry approach into a classroom, teachers and educators are providing students with a well-rounded approach to learning. Murdoch (2015) describes an inquiry approach as ‘an approach that places the learner

Paolo Freire thinks, “Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection”. (Page 31). I think education should provide a link for the students to analyse and develop their personal experiences and help them to view these under a new light. Education needs to be a “liberating” process by which the learner develops a critical analysis to learning. I believe in a constructivist educational approach that leads the student to research about the subject to “hit the problem” first. We then discuss it in the classroom so that when the solution is understood it is valuable and meaningful. I would like my teaching to lead the students to think for themselves so they develop and acknowledge the analytic process. The techniques explained in class should be supported by the student’s own researches. With the emergence of the World Wide Web and mostly online tutorial videos, it is vital that my learners

teacher, Heather, developing and implementing a science program for a class of non-English speaking students in the article Does a spider have fur? Providing suitable level course work while trying to meet E.A.L. learning objectives can prove difficult for teachers. Heather’s goal was to use the method of inquiry-based learning to help her students improve their vocabulary. By having her students engaged and enthused with a science-based program, they were not as focused on their language skills but rather on their interest in what they were learning. The article discusses how the goal when teaching is to inspire all students. The diversity focus for this study is to find ways to format classrooms to encourage students to use language without focusing too much on what one is saying but rather one what they are

As children are still learning they do not have distinct experiences thus far to be able to determine what is wrong, right, impossible and possible. The teachers job is to help them learn this information, even if the child does not know the right questions to ask. Inquiry based learning is how the teacher is expected to teach the new information so they will truly understand the knowledge.In an inquiry, each activity must build the necessary understanding to accomplish the task. Mrs Danchuk was able to develop inquiry based learning with there students by having them to think on a deeper level within a tie frame she is enabling critical thinking in students. In addition, a common goals that educators bring to the classroom, and interdisciplinary instruction and exploration promotes realization of these objectives. My mentor teacher accomplished this by engaging students and helping them to develop knowledge, insights, problem-solving skills, self-confidence, self-efficacy, and a passion for learning. Mrs. Danchuck also included discipline based learning in the lesson by discussing each stick note and making it relatable to the students, she was able to help students develop a better understanding. In the reading one of the main concepts discussed in discipline based learning describes how students learn and gain more knowledge when they understand the ways

Dream Primary School’s establishment involved collaboration between many levels of the community as it morphed from rural school into modern learning centre, landing firmly in the 21st Century, facing a myriad of expectations and challenges.

Inquiry-based learning is not a foreign concept to educators, it is a model of teaching that has been exercised in different forms and presented through various techniques for decades (Spronken-Smith and Walker, 2010, p.726). It is not unknown that there is an abundance of knowledge available at our fingertips, what is

In addition another term are also used to refer this method is active learning since students are actively involved in the learning. In addition, the teacher serves as a facilitator, rather than transmitting knowledge. In the learner-centered design, learning becomes primary while the actual the content knowledge of the subject is considered as secondary (as cited in Cranton, 1998). When this design is considered, the teacher gives additional focus to the improvement of higher order intellectual and cognitive skills in the learners. The learners are more empowered learners and they are considered more autonomous (Kavanoz, 2006) (as cited inCranton, 1998).

Early education into inquiry based learning approach encourages children to be inquisitive, and helps children make sense of their world through the humanities and social sciences. Notably, inquiry constitutes to effective lifelong learning which Murdoch (1998) explained that inquiry pedagogy for developing comprehension about the world remains as effective tool and continues to modern classroom settings. The inquiry method indicates a notion that active participation on behalf of students builds on their knowledge and is vital to a positive and effective learning environment. As an illustration, the Early Years Learning Framework (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for the Council of Australian Governments [DEEWR], 2009, p.33) identifies inquiry as an active involvement and an essential element in learning to build children’s perceptions and knowledge. Another key point in this pedagogical approach specifies in the Learning Outcome Four (DEEWR, 2009, p. 35) that children are confident and involved learners where they acquire the ability and technique to solve problems,

Inquiry based learning involves people posing questions to make sense of the world and how it works (Crombie, 2014). Traditionally, a child at school with a question would explicitly receive the answer from the educator (Crombie, 2014; Reynolds, 2012). The educator views themselves as the expert and provider of

P.E is a course that focuses on developing physical fitness in the youth and is required to be taught in both primary and secondary schools. Enquiry based learning can be implemented in P.E by providing experiences which allow the children to self-learn and self-teach which gives them opportunities to practice and develop problem solving and decision making skills. It is important that enquiry is used in physical education especially because not only does it improve mental abilities but also helps with physical development and knowledge of the body in action. “In practice, personalising learning means that a P.E teacher is able to identify and support a pupil or a group of pupils who have limited understanding of the lesson”. (Armour, 2014). As a teacher, I could start of a lesson by questioning the pupils with “how many different ways can you pass the ball?” and through this question the children will try out different ways on how to pass a ball and begin to learn through a leading question. With this, you could get the children to play different games which encourage teamwork, set goals and think of things like how the body changes with each pass of the ball. It is important to teach P.E through an enquiry based approach because it allows for differentiation and children to be challenged, helps them evaluate and analyse their learning and create students who can be critical thinkers who

Inquiry based learning is the process of learning by own experiences. Learners are finding out solution with their own understanding. This facilitation approach is different from others because it cover others approaches. Students practice and solve problem with own experiences.

The number one reason preventing high school science teachers from doing full inquiry-based labs is lack of time. Effective time management is essential in creating an inquiry and argument-based classroom. However, there are many strategies that can help teachers make time for inquiry. One of these strategies is using essential questions. The teacher can post a starter (essential) question on the board before the students enter the classroom. This will help avoid in students wasting time asking what they will be doing in class today. This strategy aids in getting the students to work bell to bell. Teachers should communicate to their students that class begins on time and they are expected to be there when the bell rings. Most teachers allow

Introduction/Anticipatory Set: Students will read parts of a selected piece in groups stopping on occasion to make predictions by answering teacher created questions and filling out one worksheet per group.

As practices for a quite some time, many techniques used by educators in order to deliver their materials and knowledge to the learners. All of these methods being choose according to the group where the knowledge transfer tried to be done and according to the purpose or the objectives of the study on that particular day or lesson. As for this article, it is solely to discuss regarding two different techniques, the definition and the difficulties faced when implying this technique in classroom practices. The two types of learning approaches mentioned are problem-based learning and project-based learning.

* Inquiry-based instruction is a student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach that engages students in investigating real world questions that they choose within a broad thematic framework.