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In what ways do you envision discovery learning as part of your teaching and curriculum?

I envision discovery learning to be a great learning tool in my classroom because it will allow students more freedom in their learning and to explore and find what is interesting to them. I would like to use discovery learning in my teaching to have students work through projects and activities collaboratively and therefore building a sense of community within the classroom. However, I do believe that this cannot be the only method used because not all students will work well using this teaching strategy. As a teacher we need to be able to identify what methods work well for each of our students and then find which teaching methods would work best in our classroom. Along with this students may not feel comfortable at the beginning of the year, doing discovery learning with their new classmates, so we as teachers need to be senstive to this matter. One tip, might be to in the beginning to allow students to choose their groups until you have built a safe community in your classroom.

I do believe that discovery learning would be a great teaching method for social studies when learning about countries or for science when learning about new topics. These are just a few of the basic ideas, but there are many other applications that discovery learning can be used for.