Blog Post #6

Inquiry Based Learning based on the environment that I teach is first, having ideas. I teach art, but I believe this is true for any content. Once you have the idea, then research the idea. Researching the idea then will give you more ideas and information. At this point you take what is useful and put it to work for yourself. In the case of art, a student may be prompted for a project, but I leave a lot of room for interpretation and creativity. Students will take the ideas they come up with and then do some research for inspiration. Once they have  more information they will weed out some. At this point they are then going to use the information they found in their artwork. Once they are "finished" (I say it in quotations because when is art truly finished?) the student will assess their work, maybe have me or a peer assess the work. Most of the time, they will go back and redo the process to add or change things before they truly call it finished