This study aimed to develop Al-Azhar University English language instructors to investigate how a proposed program based on the inquiry approach affected their inquiry-based teaching performance. The study utilized a list of the inquiry-based teaching performance skills, based on which an observation checklist was developed to assess participants'…

This study aimed to explore the science teachers' existing ideas about Inquiry-based learning as a way of enhancing students' inventive thinking skills. Methodology regarded interpretive paradigm. The first author participated in the STEM in-service teacher professional development project called the Inquiry-based learning workshops of the…

Inquiry-based instruction is common to nearly every model of gifted education. Six teachers of 14 secondary classes were briefly interviewed about their teaching and learning methods, use of inquiry-based strategies, classroom descriptions, a typical day, student expectations, and inquiry-instruction outcomes. A criterion-referenced checklist of…

The National Research Council's most recent report "Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8," (2007) has suggested a redefinition of science proficiency. "This framework rests on a view of science as both a body of knowledge and an evidence-based, model building enterprise that continually extends,…