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Inquiry-based Learning. What is it? and What does it look like?. What is it?. Inquiry-based learning is a curriculum strategy that assists students in developing: content knowledge and skills problem solving skills collaborative skills communication skills.
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Inquiry-based Learning What is it? and What does it look like? WMPeacock,2000
What is it? • Inquiry-based learning is a curriculum strategy that assists students in developing: • content knowledge and skills • problem solving skills • collaborative skills • communication skills WMPeacock,2000
What is it? • Inquiry-based learning is often called problem-based learning. • It allows students to • investigate a problem or question that arises from the content curriculum • access their natural curiosity about a subject • engage in active and authentic learning WMPeacock,2000
What does it look like? • questions/problems to drive student research, • teachers become facilitators of learning, • students are solvers of questions/ problems, • students are given guidelines to investigation, but student inquiry drives discovery. WMPeacock,2000
What does it look like? • Students are engaged in areas of interest. • Students use previous knowledge. • Students work collaboratively in teams. • Students engage in higher order thinking skills, analyzing and making judgments. • Students connect previous knowledge to new knowledge. • Assessment is authentic and performance-based. WMPeacock,2000
What do the questions look like? • Questions are open-ended, • generate from natural curiosity around the content, • encourage more than one approach, • involve discrimination of information, and • build scaffold of learning and understanding. WMPeacock,2000
What is the Process? • Students generate a question or problem. • In groups or individually, students organize prior knowledge and attempt to identify the nature of the question. • Students pose a question about what they do not understand. • Students design a plan to solve the problem and identify the resources they need. • Students gather information in order to answer the question. WMPeacock,2000
Where do I find out more about Inquiry-based Learning? • Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum • http://www.kemetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/blooms.htm • Education by Design • http://www.udel.edu/pbl/ • Center for Problem-based Learning • http://www.samford.edu/pbl/ • Webquest WMPeacock,2000
More On-line Resources • http://www.eduplace.com • http://teacher.scholastic.com • http://bham.wednet.deu/lessons.htm • http://www.udel.edu/pbl WMPeacock,2000
For further investigation: • You are invited to check-out an example of an inquiry-based curriculum unit developed, Career I-Search, developed by Wendy Peacock, Rio Linda HS, VIP resource teacher WMPeacock,2000