“Are you one of the people who are familiar with how teaching inquiry can improve school performance? If not, let me tell you how teaching inquiry can improve performance.”

– teAchnology

This article is a basic run-down on the advantages and disadvantages of inquiry-based learning. What makes it unique, though, is that it states that inquiry-based learning could be beneficial for “educational system issues pertaining to the racism and the gender inequities”. It goes on to say that, because of the nature of inquiry, teachers are best trained and suited to work with varying students and allow for maximum learning potential from all of their pupils.

One of the drawbacks to the article is that the disadvantages pertain solely to when a teacher needs to introduce it. That isn’t so much a disadvantage as much as it’s a scheduling thing – if a teacher wants to use inquiry in their classroom, they should have already planned to introduce it at the beginning of the year. The other drawback is that it doesn’t expand on it’s claims. It states that inquiry could be great for various reasons, but essentially leaves it at that. The reason I chose this article, though, is because it’s the first one that I have found that talks about the varied learners in the classroom.

Inquiry-Based Teaching: Is it Helpful or Not?. teAchnology. Retrieved from http://www.teach-nology.com/litined/inquiry/