Inquiry Based Learning
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My thoughts regarding inquiry have not changed greatly in the past couple weeks. A few years ago, I took a course about inquiry based learning, so I feel like I have a decent amount of background knowledge. I've tried dabbling a little bit here-and-there with inquiry but haven't been able to find way to effectively and realistically implement full inquiry in my classroom.
One thing I've come to realize through our readings is that inquiry comes in many forms. Inquiry does not need to be fully student-directed in order to be called "inquiry." This is something I've struggled with in trying to facilitate inquiry based learning projects because sometimes I feel my third graders need a little more prompting and coaching than older students may need...and that's okay! Through this course thus far, I would feel confident moving forward with inquiry in a middle school or high school classroom, but I'm hoping to see more examples of inquiry in an elementary classroom. I'm also wondering if we'll be planning any units that we'd be able to use with our students and learning some effective ways to integrate technology into the inquiry process. I see two ways in which technology would be integrated; research use and creating a multi-media project to share findings with others, so I'm hoping to learn more when it comes to technology. At this point, the tool I foresee using the most is the techbook through Discovery Education. I hope this will help me feel more comfortable implementing a variety of different inquiry based learning projects in my classroom.
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Karen
7/13/2016 08:54:23 pm
You've reminded me that inquiry can be thought of in phases or small portions of learning. This is especially important with younger students. I think that 3rd grade is the perfect age to introduce inquiry. They are full of questions just waiting to be answered!
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Angie Wake is a 3rd grade teacher in a K-4 school in the far north suburbs of Chicago. Archives
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