What are some challenges to inquiry approaches to learning?
One challenge of inquiry-based approaches to learning are that teachers don't understand the complexity of this approach. When they do not have this understanding, the project they are doing is more likely to come apart of become unsuccessful. Chances are, the instructor has not provided "proper scaffolding, assessment, and redirection" which leads to the failure of the project. Another challenge to inquiry-based learning is that often times the students lack sufficient prior knowledge. Sometimes students also have insufficient support and modeling from their teacher. Teachers must learn how to incorporate and deal with the responsibilities and implementations that come with inquiry-based learning. One such example of this is time management and classroom management. Lastly, teachers must design lessons in inquiry-based projects that meet a variety of criteria, which is often difficult for them.
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