Inquiry teaching

In other posts I said that maybe in the future I want to work like a teacher. Today I went to a pedagogy class, because a friend invites me, and I love it!!!!

It was about forms to teach that let the kids (and every who is learning) can learn, but not only from an “exposition” of the subject-matter (like the most of our class, where teachers are in the front of the class and talk about the subject, and we make notes in our notebooks, but is very static). The way that we are learn about is from “inquiry”, it means that the kid can discover from her or his own ideas the subject matter, and the teacher help them to learn more about it. The topic of today was “human body”, and we make 3 different activities. The first was to know about our bones, so I had to rest over a big paper and someone draw my silhouette, so then we have to draw in it all the bones we know about, and touch ourselves to discover where are the bone (like, we have to look our fingers and we can discover that in four of that we have 3 bones, and in the thumb we have only 2!!). Then the activity was to discover our organs, so we have images of that, and we have to positioning it in our own bodies to realize where it are! We do another 2 activities more, one about how our digestive system works and what we have in our mouth.

It was very fun and usefull to know activities that we can use in different situations to teach about! I was very interested about it, and I’m going the next week to the next class! J