Implementing Inquiry
Tips for Teachers: Building a Culture of Inquiry
• Approach inquiry with enthusiasm and excitement.
• Admit that inquiry involves the unexpected for you and for students.
• Model the inquiry process in your instruction (show as well as tell).
• Use the language of inquiry.
• Post the Points of Inquiry poster in your classroom and the school library.
• Facilitate the process—discuss, clarify, support and monitor.
• Evaluate the process (and make it really count).
• Use technology to do what would be impossible otherwise.
• Set a specific time for inquiry-based learning.
(taken from Focus on Inquiry)
The following checklists may be useful for teachers who are implementing inquiry-based learning: