Chapter 1: I thought the story scared by Mrs. Graham's class was very touching and truthfully portrayed the benefits of having inquiry based learning in the classroom. However, the amount of time that is required for inquiry based learning is worry-some to me. This worries me that students will be limited in the amount of information they will learn. Although I believe the students who comprehend the material better and remember it longer, I believe the subject area will be extremely limited. This purposes the question: is it better to have students learn material throughly and make potential life long connections or is it better for students to have a general knowledge and kind of understand many different lessons and topics?
Chapter 2: Wow! I can't believe inquiry based learning is so new. In this chapter the amount of teacher guidance is discusses. How do teachers know how much to intervene in inquiry based learning? This chapter states that a key element in answering this question is the intended learning outcomes. Depending on what the teacher wants to come from the lesson will affect the amount of inquiry provided to the student.
A myth that is discusses that I am guilty of is that all science subject matter should be taught through inquiry. This chapter discusses that teaching science effectively should include a variety of different approaches and strategies. This makes a lot more sense to me because it allows for this type of learning to be more practical.
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