As I was reading the Inquiry article in the internet, I found a lot of good ways in which a teacher can teach. Inquiry is defined as seeking for knowledge and or information. It is also another way of teaching, more than likely there are many teachers that do this style, if I become a teacher I think that I will be doing it too. Also as I kept on reading the article, there were also a lot of examples for inquiry teaching. This method could help a lot of teachers so that their students can keep on their memories what they learned at school.
As I remember beck to when I was a kid, I had this teacher that was a very good person. She had applied the concepts of inquiry and we as students learned a lot from her. I remember an exciting experience that happened while I was her student. She gave to all of us ten bags and then she took us to the river that was close to the school, there she told us to grab some rocks and from there on our class began. I thought that we were going to learn some science stuff since we were at the river picking up rocks. But the topic of the class was that we were going to learn how to divide, which it was very fun. We learned how to divide by putting rocks into the bags. For example she would tell us to divide forty rocks into ten bags and the result was four. I remember her and how she taught us how to divide every time I divide something.
Inquiry is also very important to the students. Not only will they have fun, but they will be more enhanced into learning. The students will accept an invitation to learning, explore and ask questions to the teachers, instead of just sitting there and listening. One of the things that kept my attention while I was reading was this quote “tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” In particular I think that this is a quote that is very truthful. Many students do not like to just go to class and sit there, they want to participate in the class and they want to feel important, they want to be recognized and they want to have this feeling of “I did it.” By telling students what to do, they will not remember much from the class. By showing them, some might understand how to do as problem, and by involving them the students will more than likely remember and understand the concepts from which the class was about.
Not only students benefit from inquiry teaching but also the teacher will. One of the ways that teachers will benefit is that it will make it easier for them to know whether or not the students understand what he is talking about. When the students are encouraged to ask questions they will not hesitate to ask if they do not understand, so in that way the teacher will know which students understand and which are not. Teachers will also become learners by finding more about the students, and by knowing what kind of learning the students have.
In some of my past experiences, I found out that inquiry teaching is very fun and exciting; students learn and at the same time have a good time. Students might not forget the experience they had and by that they might not forget what they learned. That happens to me every time I have to divide something, I remember that one day my teacher took us to the river and showed us how to divide. In my opinion this is a very good way to teach and have fun at the same time. Also teachers should always make sure that every student is okay with the way he is teaching because there are many students that do not learn in the same way as other students do.