{"id":454,"date":"2015-10-01T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T03:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2016-02-02T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T02:21:17","slug":"inquiry-based-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry Based Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Inquiry Based Learning<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Inquiry Based Learning Approach, teachers need to teach students to be flexible in the way they respond.\u00a0 I notice that in my classroom, there are some students who provide very simple explanations, in which case I need to prompt or encourage them to explain their thinking.\u00a0 Other students see the big picture, but need help clarifying their thoughts for their peers; that is why it is vital to bring everyone together to share and discuss the big ideas so that everyone learns.<\/p>\n<p>Moving students from initial curiosity to regular inquiry is the big idea of inquiry based learning.\u00a0 It is the idea that the educator is the provocateur rather than the teacher that teaches only what he\/she knows that will move learners forward into becoming more inquisitive individuals.\u00a0 It is OK for the teacher not to know the answers, because the learning community involves both students and teachers learning together.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, there is not always a need to wait for the perfect question from students, because all questions are valid.\u00a0 Questions posed by students are meaningful to them.\u00a0 And those genuinely curious questions can be a good place to begin the inquiry process.\u00a0\u00a0Keeping\u00a0a record of students\u2019 questions is a good idea, since they offer \u201cinquiry potential\u201d and learners can refer to them throughout their investigations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RESOURCES:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Cartier J.L. and Pellathy S.L. (April\/May 2009).\u00a0 Integration with Big Ideas in Mind.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Science and Children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Ministry of Education (May 2013).\u00a0 Inquiry Based Learning.\u00a0<em> Capacity Building Series, Vol. 32<\/em>.\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/www.edu.gov.on.ca\/eng\/literacynumeracy\/inspire\/research\/CBS_InquiryBased.pdf<\/p>\n<p class=\"citation\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry Based Learning In the Inquiry Based Learning Approach, teachers need to teach students to be flexible in the way they respond.\u00a0 I notice that in my classroom, there are some students who provide very simple explanations, in which case I need to prompt or encourage them to explain their thinking.\u00a0 Other students see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharonlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}