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What is Inquiry Based Learning?
Inquiry based learning is mainly involving the learner and leading him to
understand. Inquiry here implies on the possessing skills and attitude of
yours, which allows you to ask questions about new resolutions and issues while
you are gaining new information.
Dictionary
meaning of Inquiry is seeking
knowledge
, information, or truth
through questioning. All the people carry on with this process throughout
their life, even if you might find it not very much reflecting. For example,
infants use inquiry to build their sense of the world, the babies turn towards
voices, put things in their mouths, grasp things, and observe faces that come
near. The inquiry process is mainly the gathering of data and information and
applying them to senses like smelling, tasting, touching, hearing and
seeing.
Very sadly, our traditional ways of teaching discourage the process of
inquiry. It makes the student get less prone to asking questions as they move
through their grade levels, they are just expected to listen and repeat the
expected answers. This is due to the lack of understanding of inquiry based
learning. Inquiry based learning is not just asking questions, but it is a way
of converting data and information into useful knowledge. A useful application
of inquiry based learning involves many different factors, which are, a
different level of questions, a focus for questions, a framework for questions,
and a context for questions.
Much mesmerizing information and facts are readily available, which needs an
understanding of how to make sense out of it and turn it into useful knowledge.
The teachers must be able to analyze that he or she does into only have to
accumulate information and data but also have to generate it into useful
knowledge, which can be easily done through inquiry based learning. Our
country's success depending upon natural resources is the past; the future of
our country's success now depends upon the workforce which works smarter.
There are four essential elements on which inquiry based learning
depends
Laura Eben on 24 Feb 12In a research done by Sarah Thuele Lubienski and her husband Christopher, they found that once they controlled for a family's socioeconomic background, students who attended public school actually outperformed private school slightly.
DeAnna Schlebach on 02 Mar 12I enjoyed this article! I enjoy the debates of whether public or private schools are better. I like that the writers pointed out that many public schools are doing better than private schools. There are so many factors that come into play when dealing with topics such as these. For instance, parental involvement. There's more than what meets the eye, many people need to see that rather than set their hearts on one type of school that is "correct". Good stuff!
Grace Chandler on 03 Mar 12I totally agree with ending of this article and how children do in school.(its truly up to if students like their teachers). What happened to that parental support so that with any teacher a student can be successsful. Every time the debate comes up I really wonder how much control the students have over US teachers.
