Inquiry-Based Learning

Instead of just presenting the facts, use questions, problems, and scenarios to help students learn through their own agency and investigation.

Inquiry-Based Learning
Embracing Inquiry-Based Instruction
A veteran teacher shares the frustrations and challenges of this student-centered teaching model—and why she finds it so powerful.
Teacher Development
3 Reads to Inspire Your Teaching Practice
Find ideas on student engagement, deeper inquiry, and project-based learning, whether you read on your own or in a book study group.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Local Issues Make Science Learning Meaningful
Students use scientific inquiry to investigate real-world issues facing their community.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry and the Research Process
Tips for ensuring that your students’ research fosters genuine inquiry.
Education Equity
Honoring the Innocence of Black Girls
A teacher reconsiders one of his students in light of recent findings on how adults perceive black girls.
Inquiry-Based Learning
Playful Inquiry for Elementary Students
Six suggestions for bringing a key idea from a Reggio Emilia–inspired school to your K–5 classroom.
Communication Skills
Learning to Hook an Audience
The author’s fifth-grade students practiced a variety of skills in order to make 25-minute verbal and visual presentations on their inquiry-based projects.
Student Engagement
Student-Centered Learning: Building Agency and Engagement
Peek inside a high school where teachers act as facilitators and students are directors of their own learning.
Curriculum Planning
Redefining Failure
Why encouraging students to get everything right is the wrong direction.
Inquiry-Based Learning
How to Put Self-Directed Learning to Work in Your Classroom