Guided Inquiry (GI). What advantages, challenges and/or disadvantages do you see for a TL wishing to implement a GI approach.

From the readings, Guided Inquiry appears to be an effective process. Students researching real world issues making the task more significant and being able to achieve the 5 kinds of learning identified by Kuhlthau, (2010, p. 2) sounds great. GI has many advantages as it meets several outcomes; it identifies specifically the TL role and the classroom teacher role, highlights areas requiring intervention through the use of Information Search Process(ISP) by TL or classroom teacher through formative assessment, incorporates the use of ICT, prepares students for the 21st Century and is a method of Action Research. Two main challenges that I believe the TL may experience implementing this approach are staff members and time. TL may have difficulty finding staff members to work collaboratively with within different Key Learning Areas who share the same passion as the TL and the biggest hurdle I believe is time and the lack of it. It was great to see examples from Fitzgerald, Sheerman and Scheffers. Reading about their processes successes, and being able to view the research and results was motivational. I hope to be able to effectively implement Guided Inquiry into my teaching as I see it as a very worthy process.

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