to build skills in order for them to survive without us?
2. the second benefit to an inquiry-based lesson is that it can be closed enough to teach a skills but open enough for the students to build on knowledge that fits their individual need.
let’s take a vocabulary lesson as an example. during a traditional vocabulary lesson, the teacher provides the words, asks students to look up definitions and then provides a multiple choice test on the words. the students generally memorize the word definitions for the test in their short term memory and can probably not have productive knowledge of the word (they can’t use it to make a sentence).
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