Different Goals of Inquiry Teaching

摘要

Among teachers who use inquiry methods, there are three distinct goals of their teaching. Some use inquiry methods to help students construct a theory or set of principles that is the teacher's own understanding of the domain. A second group of teachers use inquiry methods to help students construct genuinely novel theories or principles that emerge from the dialogue. A third group of teachers use inquiry methods to teach students how to ask themselves questions in order to teach metacognitive or self-monitoring skills. This paper describes teachers who pursue these different goals and how they use inquiry methods to do so.