EME2040 Reflection 4

Inquiry Based Learning has been around for some time now. It was created and put together by John Dewey. He was an American Philosopher that figured out that many children learn more when they are involved. Many children don’t learn things when it comes to memorizing facts or items. In this kind of learning style the teacher will ask different questions that gets the child’s attention and would get the student to ask questions. That way the student is intrigued in the lesson plan that is being taught. This is used more for outside work by that I mean not math, English. I mean activates that are like certain activates or topics that are not school based as much. This is used better in an outside school setting because teachers or individually have a more lose hand and can do much more their pupils then in a classroom school setting. In a school setting the inquiry learning can be used for example a science topic about bugs. Every student in the third or fourth grade knows something about bugs. They either think it is so gross or so cool. You can ask questions like are you scared of lizards? The students will start telling you yes or no. From there you can ask why? There you have the student and a whole discussion and personally I think that is one of the best ways to learn. Due to my personal experience when I am involved in certain topics I seem to remember more. There was one instance that I was in eighth grade and we were opening a frog I remember every part and everything that we learned because I was involved in the whole process. From start to finish there was not one moment that I was just left alone to learn. This is a learning style that I believe that would be very effective in classrooms worldwide.