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Article: Classroom management and inquiry-based learning: finding the balance.
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- Science Scope
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Inquiry practices often involve more student-centered activities where students interact more intensively with materials and with other students during investigations. In addition to monitoring the learning taking place, teachers in an inquiry classroom have to manage more movements of materials and equipment and the social dynamics among students. The imagery that comes readily to many teachers' minds is that of active kids running around the classroom, playing around with materials and equipment, leaving a mess to be cleared up at the end of the lesson, as well as a noise level that not only attracts disapproving frowns from administrators (and colleagues in nearby ...