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Inquiry Based Learning

This past week the new semester has started. One course is inquiry based learning.  This is a course that has interested me since I saw it was required.  I was wondering how this differs from project based learning and other teaching methods that I have used.  I was excited to dive into the material this week answering: What is inquiry based learning? According to Wikipedia(n.d), inquiry based learning is started by "posing questions, problems, or scenarios".  The teacher is a facilitator, guide and is constantly adjusting based on the students.  It is a student center classroom where students are discovering their own learning.  So what does this look like in the classroom? How does this method work? I have noticed that inquiry based classrooms can take on a variety of different looks, but the basis is that students are answering questions and fostering their own learning.  This learning can be incredibly guided by the teacher or open-ended where stud...