Capacity Building Series - Ministry of Education

Capacity Building Series K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. SECRETARIAT SPECIAL EDITION # 32. inquiry -based Learning ON TRANSFORMING WONDER INTO KNOWLEDGE. It was only by taking the time to thoroughly investigate and interrogate a topic through The essence of inquiry . dedicated inquiry that a falling apple became inspiration for the study of gravity and inquiry .. requires more than simply was eventually formalized into the scientific notation g = m/s 2, or that through the imaginative process of pretending to ride a light beam that E=MC 2 was borne. answering questions or getting a right Our goal as educators is to help students make this leap from intuitive understand- answer. It espouses investigation, ings and natural curiosity to knowledge creation to a space where ideas can be exploration, search, quest, research, transformed into formalized understanding and further questioning.

A common concern among educators new to inquiry is how to teach with an inquiry approach when there are so many curriculum expectations to address. By focusing . on the “big ideas” rather than on the specific expectations alone, students’ questions often lead to, and often exceed, overall curriculum expectations (Natural Curiosity, 2011).

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