IP&T Questions

1. Cognitive Apprenticeship
2. Critical Thinking
3. Inquiry Learning
4. Instructional Conversation
5. Problem-Based Learning

A. A teacher asks her students how whales communicate with one another. The students listen to recordings, search the internet, and read encyclopedias in order to find the answer to this question.
B. A college class is asked to write a paper on which method of sex education they felt was best: abstinence or birth control.
C. Fourth graders come to class and are put in small groups to talk about last night’s reading. One group talks together about the different characters and decides what their significance was. Students who had a better understand of the reading were able to help those who struggled with the reading also comprehend it.
D. Fifth graders are assigned a project where they chose a career and must learn about it. James chooses to do his project on firefighters and interviews his uncle who has been a firefighter for ten years.
E. During recess, one student tells his friends that the Civil War was fought because of slavery. The students decide to validate this fact. They learn about what was happening the country economically, politically, etc. during the years leading up to the slavery and analyze how these conditions might have affected the Civil War.

Answers: 1D, 2E, 3A, 4C, 5B