Week 1 : Inquiry based learning
After the first week of learning about inquiry-based learning, I discovered that what I am doing in the classroom is close to what was talked about in this unit. This insight leads me to learn more about how I can allow my students to explore and learn more independently than from me teaching it to them directly. Now there was a change in my mindset; guiding students differs from teaching them. I used to think that the way I was setting up my class was guiding my students to find the answers on their own, but in reality, I was still teaching them directly. Using the information I learned this week, I will have the students explore more and have me play a passive role in their learning. A burning question I still have after this week is how this will look for more complicated subjects I teach that involve a lot of math. For these lessons and subjects having students try and figure out what to do can be confusing and cause hardships and misunderstandings, so I am curious about how to p...