"Even when I encourage students to speak up in class, the room falls completely silent...""Even when I have them do group ...

Inquiry-based learning emphasises a student's role in the learning process and asks them to engage with an idea or topic in an active way, rather than by sitting and listening to a teacher. The ...

Visualization of SLA principal Chris Lehmann's 2011 talk: guiding kids' to thinking about how they think. Nearly seven years after first opening its doors, the Science Leadership Academy public magnet ...

The other day, I gave a 40-minute keynote speech at a symposium held at Toyo University's Asaka Campus. The title of the talk ...

This comprehensive study investigated student outcomes of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in undergraduate mathematics and linked these outcomes to students’ and instructors’ experiences of IBL. Based at ...

“Inquiry-based learning” is a hot topic in education these days, both in Canada and around the world. In Canada, Ontario’s incoming premier Doug Ford recently declared his opposition to recent ...

The University of Tokyo joint study links stronger engagement in inquiry-based learning with more self-directed choices after high school.

This is a crucial time for education. Every system in every country is in the process of figuring out how to reboot education to teach skills, application, and attitude in addition to recall and ...

Educators need evidence drawn from research to help them implement and justify inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning science. Many science teachers, for example, question why they should ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Inquiry-Based Learning is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on what the data says about inquiry-based learning, if your district ...

The rise of ChatGPT promises to bring simplicity to the more mundane tasks of human existence and has also revived with new fervor an enduring question of our education system: how do we adequately ...

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