From Green Blazers To Blue Corduroys

Inquiry on Inquiry Based Instruction One of the big concept we were introduced to this year as a teaching strategy was inquiry based instruction.  Inquiry based instruction and inquiry based learning is something that I always thought I would want to implement in my classroom. My problem I can count the number of inquiry based lesson I have led in my career on one hand prior to this year.  My first real opportunity to teach inquiry based learning was on #DSA2017 where I taught an inquiry based lesson on nutrition.   But this is now the final stages to student teaching prep. And as always we should be experts with all of this. So here are my reflections on my first official teaching experience with Inquiry Based Instruction. Gems What am I suppose to do!!!!!  Like for real this entire lesson my major take away was: "Wow, as a teacher I'm not doing a lot. I'm just standing here."  I kind of liked it but also didn't like it. The entire time I was s...

Essential Question: How do we Utilize Inquiry Based Learning in our Classroom? For the next two weeks Penn State #PSUAgEd18 will be exploring inquiry based learning.  From my personal understanding Inquiry Based Learning (Inquiry Base Instruction) is a pedagogical approach which main goal is to make the students the driver of learning and the teacher more of a facilitator.   So instead of this: Leading to this: Students Response We as teachers are encouraged to change up the lesson. Thinking about my high school experiences some of my favorite classes were the Project Lead the Way Classes - Why? They utilized inquiry based and problem based learning. Inquiry Based Learning is to Problem Solving Approach as Squares are to Rectangles Much like how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares: all inquiry lessons are also PSA but not all PSA lessons are inquiry lessons.  With problem solving approach you have steps an...