OER4Schools/Starting the enquiry based learning process: Difference between revisions

{{ednote|text= The differences between the approaches of the four teachers can be understood based on '''differing levels of teacher support or scaffolding (maximum for teacher A) '''for the students and '''students’ independence in their learning (maximum for teacher D)'''. While we hope that we can help our students to take up more responsibility and ownership through enquiry-based learning, we trust that the teachers can make appropriate decisions on which level of support or scaffolding is best suited for their students at any point. One thing that can be common across the approaches is that a teacher should always strive to be a co-learner with the students and not assume that he/she already has all the answers. Be prepared for surprises and that the students’ questions and findings might be very illuminating indeed!}}

{{activity|stgw| on making use of enquiry ideas|10}} Below are five enquiry ideas (A-E) that could be turned into an enquiry in your class. Please note that these are just ''enquiry ideas'' which means that you need to go through substantial thinking and planning for the ideas to be introduced in a lesson to engage students in their own enquiry. It may be that you do not find some of the ideas useful at all, in which case you are welcome to come up with your own enquiry ideas to discuss as a group.