Inquiry
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Instructional Design: Inquiry Based Learning
It is a goal of RVS to challenge and engage each learner through exemplary instructional design. An inquiry-based model enriches the learning experience by:
Goal Three: Instructional design challenges & engages each learner:
Learning occurs any time, any place, any path, any pace.
- providing multiple learning pathways, empowering all learners regardless of where and when.
Instructional design engages each learner.
- engaging learners through a variety of strategies, settings, and formats.
Instructional design enriches the learning experience.
- transcending the classroom and encompassing 21st C competencies, enabling learning to be authentic, in-depth, and in areas of student interest.
Instructional practices empower learners.
- Inspiring learners to go beyond the learning environment to construct and deepen their knowledge and understanding.
What Is Inquiry?
"Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understand the world. Inquiry is based on the belief that understanding is constructed in the process of people working and conversing together as they pose and solve the problems. It involves serious engagement and investigation and the active creation and testing of new knowledge." (Galileo: What is inquiry?)
Why Inquiry?
Inquiry engages students in authentic, real investigative work that reflects the real work of the living discipline. When students participate in the real work of a living discipline, their level of interest and engagement, and the quality of their work increases dramatically.
"Through inquiry we develop important skills such as careful observation, reasoning, critical thinking, and the ability to justify or refute our existing knowledge. Lastly, because inquiry begins with a meaningful problem or issue, the process engages students as they come to value the driving questions that motivate their inquiry process." (Galileo: Why Inquiry?)
What every good Inquiry needs?
- A Need to Know
- A Driving Question
- Student Voice and Choice
- 21st Century Skills
- Inquiry and Innovation....
- Feedback and Revision
- Authentic Audience
- Key Understandings…
involve the “big ideas” that give meaning and importance to facts
Inquiry Resources
Use this link to access resources for Inquiry.
Designing Inquiry-Based Studies
Click here to access a discussion and frameworks for designing inquiry-based studies.
