Millard Fillmore's Bathtub | Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, politics and a little science
Description: Towards giving students the chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, to prepare them for the task of renewing our common world.
Towards giving students the chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, to prepare them for the task of renewing our common world.
I’m included in Larry Ferlazzo’s most recent, and always wonderful, Classroom Q&A. This week’s question: What are the differences between Project-Based, Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning? My response, in part:
The key question teachers should ask themselves about inquiry is who is actually doing the inquiry work. Early in my career, I thought I was doing inquiry-based learning, but really, I was the one doing inquiry, not my students. I had what I thought was a great unit on US Foreign Policy based on the question, “Why are we at War in Afghanistan?” which traced the development of US interventions from the Spanish American War to today. But I was the one doing all the work. Students learned lots of facts about v
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub | Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, politics and a little science