3351 Double Journal Entry 8

What are some challenges to inquiry approaches to learning?


One of the biggest challenges to this approach is teachers simply lacking the skills and knowledge to implement these approaches. If a teacher does not fully understand how to do something then they get frustrated and see it as a waste of time. Through most of my blog postings I have touched on this problem especially when dealing with technology. The first step in creating a better education system is to first teach the teachers.

Project-based learning and research-based strategies:


Setting objectives can be seen in project-based learning through the fact of there is a common goal that the students are working towards.

Simulations and Games can be connected to project-based learning because they both are using different means to teach students knowledge in a way that is grabbing the students attention.

Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers is connected to project-based learning through the fact that it is using students prior knowledge to build upon.

Sources:


Barron Brigid. (n.d.). Teaching for meaningful learning. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/edutopia-teaching-for-meaningful-learning.pdf


Research-based strategies. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/