How did one high school chemistry teacher engage student-centered learning during a design project?
There are two key ways for teachers to create student-centered learning environments: to create environments where students can engage in inquiry and to coach students to learn from their experimentation. David, a high school chemistry teacher, was worried prior to the start of the design project that the decisions students would make as part of the student-directed (open inquiry) design project would be too difficult and would take up too much time. In fact, David almost switched design projects at the last minute, replacing the student-directed project with the teacher-directed (guided inquiry) roofing tile project, which eliminates some of the decisions students must make.
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