Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use prompts about inquiry-based teaching in science to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
• Understand best practices, benefits, and characteristics of inquiry-based learning.
• Connect inquiry-based learning to the Science and Engineering practices of NGSS.
• Explore the student and teacher roles and the IBL process to engage student learning.
• Identify strategies for lesson planning, effective questioning, and discussions in an inquiry-based classroom.
• Recognize ways assessment is used in inquiry-based learning.