Based on John Dewey's philosophy that education begins with the curiosity of the learner Works well with many educational techniques including multiple-intelligence, cooperative learning, and constructivism Can be implemented during any activity and with any subject or grade level Focuses on information- processing and problem- solving skills More emphasis on "how we come to know" and less on "what we know." Students learn how to continue learning. Inquiry-Based Learning Janetta Garton Technology Curriculum Director Willard R-II School http://www.willard.k12.mo.us/co/tech/inquiry.htm
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Based on John Dewey's philosophy that education begins with the curiosity of the learner
Works well with many educational techniques including multiple-intelligence, cooperative learning, and constructivism
Can be implemented during any activity and with any subject or grade level
Focuses on information-processing and problem-solving skills
More emphasis on "how we come to know" and less on "what we know."
Inquiry-Based Learning has 5 common components QuestionsStudent EngagementCooperative InteractionPerformance EvaluationVariety of Resources
Lesson begins with a question
Essential questionThe teacher asks an essential question Stimulates investigation and sparks curiosityCan be asked over and over, no one right answerAnswer must be invented or constructedFrom the top of Bloom's Taxonomy
Requires students to EVALUATE (make a thoughtful choice between options, with the choice based upon clearly stated criteria)
Requires students to SYNTHESIZE (invent a new or different version) Requires students to ANALYZE (develop a thorough and complex understanding through
skillful questioning)General in nature and lead to more questions
Example Essential QuestionsMust a story have a moral? Were mathematical theorems invented or discovered?
Subsidiary/Unit QuestionsDeveloped by students and teacher to find an answer to the essential questionTopic orientatedSpecific
ExampleEssential Question: Do we have to fight wars?Unit Question: What events lead to the Civil War?
Teacher is facilitatorStudents
carry out activities using materials, observing, evaluating, and recording information sort out information and decide what is important see detail detect sequences and events notice changedetect differences and similaritiesare creating a unique product that shows their understanding
Students are asked to work in pairs or groups discussing ideas
Not a competition. Answers come in all shapes and forms.
Students create an end product to communicate their knowledge, slideshowgraph poster song mural