Inquiry & Problem Based Learning

Successful Use In OUR Classroom

Eastern Washington UniversityEDUC 341

Dr. Kevin PyattPrepared By:Ryan Lavine

Who Will You Be?

“You will be the same person in five years as

you are today except for the people you meet and

the books you read.”- attributed to Charles Jones

Eastern Washington High School

Welcome to

Freshman Reading Extended Education

FREE Objectives:• To help you to grow as a reader/learner and assist you

to be successful with your reading in your mainstream classrooms

Home of the Eagles!

FREE Annual Objectives:In this classroom, we will discuss…• How we can become better readers, analyzers and doers

• How to compare and contrast in greater depth

• How to develop and express educated opinions

• How to create from our ideas

• How to design concepts for our creations

• How to appropriately evaluate ourselves,

our environment and others

Examples of Reading:

How This Class Will be Taught:

Today’s OBJECTIVE:

We will discuss and figure out how WE can use Inquiry & Problem Based Learning to understand…

DALES CONE OF EXPERIENCE

First: What are Inquiry and Problem Based Learning?

• Video: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning

Review: Inquiry and Problem Based Learning Is…

• Student Driven

• Exploration

• Questioning

• Reflection

• Beyond ‘Information Accumulation’

• A Quest for Knowledge

• Solutions, not Answers

• Building Confidence

• Building Critical Thinking Skills

Now You Know About Inquiry Based Learning…

• Apply it to our lesson today looking at Dales Cone of Experience to discuss how we will learn in this class.

Use Your

To help youlearn with

DALES CONE OF EXPERIENCE

Use IBL

• Student Driven

• Exploration

• Questioning

• Reflection

• Beyond ‘Information Accumulation’

• A Quest for Knowledge

• Solutions, not Answers

• Building Confidence

• Building Critical Thinking Skills

To Understand

Dales Cone of Experience To Learn:

• Verbal Symbols• Visual Symbols

• Audio, Pictures• Video

• Ed TV• Exhibits

• Field Trips• Demonstrations

• Dramatic Participation• Contrived Experience

• Direct Purposeful Experience

• How we can become better readers, analyzers and doers

• How to compare and contrast in greater depth

• How to develop and express educated opinions

• How to create from our ideas

• How to design concepts for our creations

• How to appropriately evaluate ourselves, our environment and others