Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Inquiry Based Learning

Inquiry learning - which may be inclusive of Project & Problem Based learning, still has elements that may be evaluated independently.

Biopoint - http://www.biopoint.com/inquiry/ibr.html - gives a rather complete overview of developing an inquiry based lesson. Included in the article are links to example lessons.

If you were to implement inquiry based learning in your classroom, what resources would you need. Curriculum revision, professional development, development time, hardware, software, study time - what would you need to do?

1 comment:

Annie said...

Modifying instruction, for me, has always meant modifying the questions that should be asked. As a teacher to young students or colleagues--the impact of my teaching highly correlates to how spontaneously effective my questioning skill is. Motivation to learn is linked to how well a teacher can whet another's appetite to learn. It's all tied