Inquiry-based learning is a learning process where students generate questions from their interests, curiosities, and experiences to create new knowledge. An old adage states: "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand."
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Concept to Classroom
Inquiry-based Learning
What is IBL?
Teaching Tips
10 Tips for IBL
Problem-based learning challenges students to "learn to learn" through active engagement in working cooperatively in groups to problem solve real world problems. This type of learning engages students in critical thinking, facilitates team participation skills, and develops self-directed learning strategies.
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Problem-Based Learning
Learner-Centered Classrooms
Problem-Based Learning Activities
Understanding by Design is an instructional tool used for educational planning that is focused on “teaching for understanding.” This methodology uses multiple forms of assessment to let students demonstrate their understanding in various ways. It incorporates a variety of resources. The teacher uses questioning, probing, and feedback to stimulate student reflection and rethinking. Information from ongoing assessments are used as feedback to adjust instruction as well as checking for student understanding and misconceptions. The basic precept is beginning with the desired result and then “work backwards” to develop instruction.
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Backward Design 101
Backward DesignUnderstanding by Design
UbD
UbD Units and Resources
