After going to a workshop with Miss Doha Kabalan. It was one of a life changing experience. The techniques that were used in inquiry based learning were just so interactive and interesting, it didn't even feel like a workshop that you think is boring or so. This is how it affects your classrooms too! Using the techniques and knowing the point of every step used is really helpful in helping students learn and grow.
Students usually think that learning and schools are very boring and it has no use to it. This is were our role as teachers come and that is to light and ignite that inner motivation in them to crave learning new things and to be interested in reading and knowing alot of things. Some students have the wrong idea about school and why they should be learning and studying. One of the answers I heard when I asked a student in grade 7 was , " I need education for me not be dumb" .
How many students have this misconception of why they need education in their lives! In Inquiry based learning, what happens is that we drive them to be curious about a certain topic, listening to what they would like to know about it and what this topic brings about in them, emotionally, or in their daily life.
Inquiry based learning is a revolution, it will shift the mindset of students towards education, it will boost their interest in learning unlike the traditional curriculum and the methods used in teaching. One of the applied methods for Inquiry based learning is Starting with a Question.
Asking students to fill in the
What I Know
What I want to know
What I learned
Why? .. when you tell students to fill this simple chart, you will know where to focus more and on the concepts that ignite their curiousity but you can also include the topics that should be learned in a very lean way along with what interests them..
