"One of the most significant challenges to the successful implementation of inquiry approaches is the skills and knowledge of the teachers engaging in this alternative form of teaching and learning" (Barron and Darling-Hammond). Teachers who don’t fully understand the complexities of inquiry-based learning may simply think of this approach as “unstructured,” and may, in result, fail to provide proper scaffolding, assessment, and redirection as projects unfold. Another challenge to inquiry is teaching your students to learn this way; students may lack the background knowledge needed to make sense of the inquiry. Therefore the teacher must work harder with students to comprehend this type of learning. "One of the principal challenges for teachers, then, is to learn how to juggle a host of new responsibilities and implementation issues—from carving out the time needed for extended inquiry to developing new classroom-management techniques. Teachers must also be able to design and support inquiry-based lessons that meet a variety of criteria, such as illuminating key subject matter concepts, balancing direct instruction with inquiry opportunities, scaffolding the learning of individual students through modeling and feedback, facilitating learning among multiple groups, and developing assessments to guide the learning process" (Barron and Darling-Hammond). Successful inquiry-based approaches require careful planning!
Citations:
- Barron, B., & Darling-Hammond, L. Teaching for meaningful learning. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-teaching-for-meaningful-learning.pdf
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