Inquiry

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“Move from strategies in which the teacher covers the material to strategies in which the students uncover it.”

Curiousity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back.

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

Inquiry can be defined by the student outcomes it brings about as much as by the teacher strategies used .

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“Critical thinking, responsibility for one’s own learning, independent inquiry, intellectual growth and maturity(development).”

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“It refers to a range of strategies used to promote learning through students’ active and increasingly independent, investigation of questions, problems, and issues, often for which there is no single answer.”

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“What motivates learning is students really having a question to which they want an answer.”

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."    

(Chinese Proverb)

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“In the beginning teacher guidance may be substantial but over time guidance as a driver of inquiry decreases while inquiry as the primary driver of learning increases.”

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“Inquiry-guided learning refers to an array of classroom practices that promote student learning through guided and increasingly, independent investigation of complex questions and problems, often for which there is no single answer.”

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“Rather than teaching the results of others’ investigations, which students learn passively, teachers assist students in mastering and learning through the process of active investigation itself.”

Teaching Learning Through Inquiry

“This process involves the ability to formulate good questions, identify and collect appropriate evidence, present results systematically, analyze and interpret results, formulate conclusions, and evaluate the worth and importance of those conclusions.”

Q Tasks

“Curiousity fuels imagination and leads to wonderment; thus it is a

prequisite to good questioning.”

Q Tasks

Engagement is sparked by curiousity, then deep thinking is guided by the question.

Bernard Baruch. Quotations. http://www.habits-of-mind.net/

"Millions saw the apple fall,

but Newton asked why."

Frank Smith

“Thought flourishes as questions are asked, not as answers are found.”

Voltaire

“Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.”

Sam Keen

“To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.”

Lloyd Alexander

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

Arthur Bloch

“Every clarification breeds new  questions.”

Sam Keen

“To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.”

Dorothy Parker

“The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity.”

Samuel Johnson

“Curiousity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”

Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only

passionately curious.”