Scientific Inquiry and Chinese Science Education Standards: A Guide to Teaching and Learning: A Guide to Teaching and Learning

Author: Luo Xingkai
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book discusses important issues such as the structure, teaching guidance, and evaluation of inquiry-based learning, including how to enable students to evaluate their own learning. Additionally, it covers administrative support, communication with parents, appropriate teaching assessments, and other ways to support and promote this new teaching approach. The book comprehensively explores inquiry-based teaching and learning across various science topics in primary and secondary schools, providing detailed case studies to illustrate the timing and methods for teachers to implement inquiry-based instruction. It includes some documentary short essays describing real teaching scenarios, covering a variety of inquiry activities across different grade levels. There is also a chapter dedicated to addressing common teacher concerns, such as the conditions for implementing inquiry-based teaching. Therefore, this book serves as a valuable and practical tool for educational researchers, educational administrators, curriculum designers, frontline teachers, school decision-makers, and concerned parents alike.