Inquiry

In order to understand how to implement an inquiry-based classroom the first question to answer is ‘What is inquiry-based learning and how can we apply inquiry learning into our everyday teaching and learning activities? In an inquiry-based classroom, student interest is at the center of curriculum planning, instruction and assessment. Inquiry is a process of learning that is driven by questioning, thoughtful investigating, making sense of information, and developing new understandings. The students are responsible for ask questions, researching their questions, and choosing how to present their findings. Students are in charge of solving problems or answer posing questions rather than having the teacher simply present facts or answer questions…

nquiry-Based instruction is the teaching method researched for this paper. The research collected shows the importance of inquiry-based instruction in the 21st century schools. The students today need more instruction to allow them to discover the answer to the problem instead of the teacher always modeling the problems. Inquiry-Based instruction is a student centered teaching method and the students work in pairs or groups to solve problems. Studies have shown that students retain the…

required to take a first-year seminar (FYS) class. In this class, the course objectives are to encourage inquiry based thinking, information literacy, integrative thinking, intercultural thinking, and metacognitive thinking in students. Other universities such as Brown, an Ivy League school founded in 1764, and the University of Illinois believe all courses and course syllabi should reflect Bloom’s and Fink’s Taxonomies (see Figures 1 and…

demonstrated leadership and learning based inquiry, and provided me an opportunity to examine the classroom failure in a new light. The significance of the technique was that it was not a brilliant spot light focused with blinding accuracy on my failure, but rather, it generated a softer light reflected from a prism of authentic minds and souls that helped me examine solutions to the failure internally; the questions generated from that circle of trust were the impetus to listen to and learn…

demands students to develop inquiry skills (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Report Authority [ACARA], n.d.a). In Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), students are required to learn and apply the concepts through inquiry-based learning, such that they will be able to solve problems in a logical way (ACARA, n.d.c, p.3). This short essay discusses the concept and some theoretical justifications of critical inquiry, and evaluate its usefulness in high schools in Australia. The nature of…

Different types of inferences: What are inferences used for? Whether experimental or review in purpose, most studies have laid out meticulously detailed analyses of the types of inference that exist in their authors’ view of comprehension. The literature has been prolific in distinguishing various types and categories of inference, ranging from thirteen, described in Graesser et al. (1994), nine in Pressley and Afflerbach (1995), to the more usual two, adopted by many more researchers. Even…

Explain and discuss Hume’s account of causation. David Hume introduces and discusses his widely-debated theories and ideas surrounding human belief and knowledge in the two texts A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Using these two texts as the primary focus this essay shall critically explain and discuss Hume’s account of causation. Firstly, Hume’s concepts and theories surrounding human knowledge and belief will be critically discussed, focusing firstly,…

Can Inquiry Lead to Greater Achievement and Engagement? Implementing an inquiry-based approach to instruction is something that usually takes large amounts of preparation on the teacher’s part. Being able to invest the time to properly plan and thoroughly implement inquiry in a science classroom is something that some teachers struggle with. The uncertainty is whether or not the extra time spent will indeed lead to greater student achievement. When teachers decide to use inquiry in their…

the thinking. She runs a start-up that focuses on integrating inquiry into the classroom by looking at the statistics of that same notion; by recording and analyzing the time the teacher and the students spend talking in a classroom, she argues educators can get a better glimpse into how their students are receiving the lessons they plan. My understanding of inquiry is deeply rooted in this mantra. As I understand it, the goal at the heart of inquiry is to teach both content and process within…

useful model—strategic inquiry for evidence-based school to improve their education outcomes and leadership development. Strategic inquiry provides a specific method and process about how to find out the barrier of struggling student, how to effectively and strategically make a difference in student achievement, and how to shift school culture…