Candy's Teaching Through Inquiry Article

I began this journey as a member of a group called “Teaching Through Inquiry”, although I had no idea what it meant at the time.  When I agreed to participate in the project, I was confronted almost immediately by my own uncertainty about what the word inquiry meant as well as my utter lack of vision about what it might look like to teach through inquiry.  As participants, we were asked to try something in our classrooms that would count as inquiry,  whatever we thought inquiry was.  Despite having read many articles about things that sounded like inquiry, I found myself perplexed and disappointed in my own inability to conceptualize what that might look like in a classroom.  I struggled with the notions of participation and experiential learning and tried to distinguish them from my understanding of inquiry.  I went through a time where I felt that almost anything hands-on and experiential could be considered inquiry, and found this caused my focus to diverge. [...]

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