Have you ever taught HS Physics with the Inquiry Based Approach?

[robertphy]

Nothing exceptionally new here, but I want to shift gears in my teaching practice and increase the Inquiry Based Approach more and more.

Have you ever taught with this approach, what resources did you use, and what results you had ?
Thank you for your cooperation

 

[gleem]

Nothing exceptionally new here, but I want to shift gears in my teaching practice and increase the Inquiry Based Approach more and more.

I think inquiry based learning is also known as active learning, flipped classroom or the Discovery Approach which are designed to directly involve the student. I do not have any experience in this method but I have an interest in the continuing decline of our educational systems. Despite decades of tinkering with it and trying to improve it has resulted in little if any progress. Our standard system of education is like a business model a standard product produced on a fixed schedule. If you don't meet the specifications then you are tossed in the bin.

A book that perhaps reintroduced the discovery approach is that of Paulo Freire The Pedagogy of the Oppressed which builds on the foundational works of Jane Addams and John Dewey a hundred years ago. In his book "The Math Myth" Andrew Hacker sees this approach as solving some of the problems of current math education.

This method is more work for the teacher and may of course be difficult to implement in our test based educational systems. It may take some time for you to come up to speed. Good Luck

 

[WWGD]

I think inquiry based learning is also known as active learning, flipped classroom or the Discovery Approach which are designed to directly involve the student. I do not have any experience in this method but I have an interest in the continuing decline of our educational systems. Despite decades of tinkering with it and trying to improve it has resulted in little if any progress. Our standard system of education is like a business model a standard product produced on a fixed schedule. If you don't meet the specifications then you are tossed in the bin.

A book that perhaps reintroduced the discovery approach is that of Paulo Freire The Pedagogy of the Oppressed which builds on the foundational works of Jane Addams and John Dewey a hundred years ago. In his book "The Math Myth" Andrew Hacker sees this approach as solving some of the problems of current math education.

This method is more work for the teacher and may of course be difficult to implement in our test based educational systems. It may take some time for you to come up to speed. Good Luck

Well, it seems to bring in political assumptions, I'd even say an agenda. Politics edit , nor religion, should be brought up when teaching children. Both smack of pushing personal agendas. Edit: Freire, together with Gramsci are known to be promoters of " The Long March though the Institions", a movement to surreptitiously promote Comunism in the West.

 

[gleem]

A book that perhaps reintroduced the discovery approach is that of Paulo Freire The Pedagogy of the Oppressed which builds on the foundational works of Jane Addams and John Dewey a hundred years ago. In his book "The Math Myth" Andrew Hacker sees this approach as solving some of the problems of current math education.

Freire was a noted educator and has had a significant impact on teaching, his political philosophy aside. He was noted for promoting the teaching of critical thinking.

 

[Muu9]

https://www.modelinginstruction.org/

 

[WWGD]

I used to send my class notes to students, encouraged them to experiment before class rather than just solve problems. It made up for a lively, intense environment. It was harder on me, but it was the only methodology I could live with, rather than what I would call an educational ambush.

I may be wrong here, but when I hear terms, phrases like " oppressed" or "( respect for) tradition", I start suspecting some indoctrination ( not necessarily conscious or intentional) , however minor, from the left/right respectively. I'm surprised since, as a T.A, I never brought up in class anything outside the material I was teaching.