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Personal Inquiry Project
How can teachers provide learning opportunities for mathematics students that will foster their ability to become problem solvers and life-long learners?
The whole idea of life-long learning is very important to help students adjust to the challenges of our changing global body of knowledge. In mathematics, teaching basic skills is necessary to navigate the curriculum, but what is more valuable is teaching students to think independently and become life-long learners through problem solving.
The question I want to answer in this PIP is how can teachers provide learning opportunities for students that will foster their ability to become life-long learners? This PIP will explore research on teaching strategies, teacher resources, and learning styles. It will become a reference to teachers that they can access to enhance everyday curricular activities. These activities will engage children in and help them become autonomous thinkers.
Project Results
Going through the process of gathering information for this project was quite a daunting task, and the one thing I found which stuck with me most is that you cannot teach students to be life long learners nor can you teach them to be autonomous thinkers. This made me wonder what it is then you can do, and I discovered that what teachers can do is provide students with the opportunity for self-discovery, and to use the skills they have been introduced to solve new and unfamiliar problems. This being discovered I decided to add a blog component to my PIP so that I could outline what I was doing in my classroom, and the effects I was seeing from projects in supporting my Inquiry question.
Overall I found that through this project I was able to establish a site, which can document how to create opportunities to help students become autonomous thinkers and life longer learners. Additionally as a resource it constantly has the ability to be updated, and grow with my career as research surfaces, and I discover new strategies for student growth.
How can teachers provide learning opportunities for mathematics students that will foster their ability to become problem solvers and life-long learners?
The whole idea of life-long learning is very important to help students adjust to the challenges of our changing global body of knowledge. In mathematics, teaching basic skills is necessary to navigate the curriculum, but what is more valuable is teaching students to think independently and become life-long learners through problem solving.
The question I want to answer in this PIP is how can teachers provide learning opportunities for students that will foster their ability to become life-long learners? This PIP will explore research on teaching strategies, teacher resources, and learning styles. It will become a reference to teachers that they can access to enhance everyday curricular activities. These activities will engage children in and help them become autonomous thinkers.
Project Results
Going through the process of gathering information for this project was quite a daunting task, and the one thing I found which stuck with me most is that you cannot teach students to be life long learners nor can you teach them to be autonomous thinkers. This made me wonder what it is then you can do, and I discovered that what teachers can do is provide students with the opportunity for self-discovery, and to use the skills they have been introduced to solve new and unfamiliar problems. This being discovered I decided to add a blog component to my PIP so that I could outline what I was doing in my classroom, and the effects I was seeing from projects in supporting my Inquiry question.
Overall I found that through this project I was able to establish a site, which can document how to create opportunities to help students become autonomous thinkers and life longer learners. Additionally as a resource it constantly has the ability to be updated, and grow with my career as research surfaces, and I discover new strategies for student growth.