What is Inquiry?
Inquiry based learning is a term that we often hear in schools but don't always understand its meaning. It is something that is becoming more and more relevant in today's education landscape and it has now become crucial that all teachers have an understanding of why it is important to student learning.
Inquiry based learning can be defined as "a complex process where students formulate questions, investigate to find answers, build new understandings, meanings and knowledge, and then communicate their learnings to others." (Alberta Education, Inquiry Based Learning)
"The reason for proposing inquiry in our schools is that we want students to engage in authentic, real work that reflects the work that an adult at work or in the community might tackle. We want students to engage in questioning that provoke authentic exploration with the characters of academic rigor typical of real work with real ideas". (taken from galileo.org)
Inquiry-based learning provides opportunities for students to:
• develop skills they will need all their lives
• learn to cope with problems that may not have clear solutions
• deal with changes and challenges to understandings
• shape their search for solutions, now and in the future.
(Taken from Focus on Inquiry)
Helpful Links to further explain inquiry based learning
Thirteen Ed Online- Inquiry-Based Learning
Galileo.org
Inquiry based learning can be defined as "a complex process where students formulate questions, investigate to find answers, build new understandings, meanings and knowledge, and then communicate their learnings to others." (Alberta Education, Inquiry Based Learning)
"The reason for proposing inquiry in our schools is that we want students to engage in authentic, real work that reflects the work that an adult at work or in the community might tackle. We want students to engage in questioning that provoke authentic exploration with the characters of academic rigor typical of real work with real ideas". (taken from galileo.org)
Inquiry-based learning provides opportunities for students to:
• develop skills they will need all their lives
• learn to cope with problems that may not have clear solutions
• deal with changes and challenges to understandings
• shape their search for solutions, now and in the future.
(Taken from Focus on Inquiry)
Helpful Links to further explain inquiry based learning
Thirteen Ed Online- Inquiry-Based Learning
Galileo.org