Inquiry+Learning

Inquiry learning is a learner-centred approach with a focus on developing higher order thinking skills. Learning is driven by a process of inquiry owned by the student. This model is underpinned by a belief that it is essential that students are educated for knowledge creation, lifelong learning and leadership.
 * Inquiry Learning **

The many forms of inquiry learning may include integrated curriculum, issue/problem based scenarios, negotiated inquiry and play based inquiry.

Inquiry is characterised by students:
 * asking questions, building on prior knowledge and making their own discoveries
 * finding out information from primary sources to answer generative questions and develop deep conceptual understandings
 * making connections between ideas, learning domains and experiences.

The benefits of using an inquiry are significant because this approach:
 * considers connections across learning areas
 * considers the way that individual students learn
 * allows learning to be more relevant, as concepts are learned in context and relate to existing knowledge
 * requires that content is relevant, integrating multiple aspects/concepts simultaneously
 * links schools to the wider community
 * assists in the management of a crowded curriculum by combining a number of expected outcomes into rich assessment tasks whilst enabling skills to be developed in context and across domains
 * provides students with meaningful links between activities, rather than jumping from ‘subject’ to ‘subject’ with little contextual relevance
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">supports students to become autonomous learners.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An excellent presentation on Reggio Emilia philosophies from [|You Tube] put together by a school in Singapore.