Oral Presentation: Inquiry-Based Learning & STEM Teaching Strategies

This presentation discusses inquiry-based learning and various STEM teaching strategies for children in early years. Inquiry-based learning is presented as a student-centered approach that encourages exploration, questioning, and problem-solving, contrasting with traditional teacher-led methods. The presentation highlights the benefits of inquiry-based learning, including improved student engagement, increased mastery, and enhanced knowledge retention, and outlines its key components: observation, questioning, investigation, conclusion, and discussion. It also details four models of inquiry: structured, controlled, guided, and free inquiry. Furthermore, the presentation explores various STEM teaching strategies, such as team-based learning, visualization strategies, inquiry-based instruction, and effective lecturing, emphasizing the importance of selecting appropriate strategies to support student learning and development in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The presentation concludes that teachers should encourage questioning and problem-solving to enhance students' understanding and career development.

Oral presentation

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Inquiry based learning.................................................................................................................3
Teaching strategy in STEM for children in early year................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Oral presentation can be also known as public speaking, simply presentation that consists
individual as well as group by addressing different topic and audience. It aims to educate,
entertain, present argument and inform. It is used in order to provide education to students. This
project report incudes selection of inquiry-based learning and teaching strategies in STEM for
children.
TASK
Inquiry based learning
Inquiry based learning can be described as learning process that consist engagement of students
with development of real-world connection by questioning and exploration. It is one of approach
that encourage students for solving problem and experimental learning. It is just opposite to
traditional classroom learning in which only teacher is the person who present knowledge and
factors in context to a subject. Inquiry based learning on the other hand is a strategy that consist
students to follow specific methods as well as practices which is similar to professional scientists
for constructing knowledge. There are various benefits of this type of learning for a student
which are mentioned below:
 It improve engagement of students by allowing them to ask question to explore more. It
will increase participation of students with teacher that is create positive impact over
engagement of students.
 It will also increase mastery of students by allowing them to discover and explore new
things in order to develop skills and concepts.
 Learning is also important for students as it allow them to improve knowledge of students
but allowing them to recall of information.
There is different component included in this type of learning for students. These components
include observation, questions, investigation, conclusion and discussion. All these components
allow students to improve their learning. In observation, teacher give introduction of topic and
students needs to explore about topic through reperch. Question is another component in which
students can raise question about topic in order to make predictions. In investigation component
students needs to make initiative in order to find out different answers. In conclusion component
student collect information for answering different question in order to lead more questions. In

sharing component, students needs to learn from each other through presenting results but in this
teacher also provide guidance to students.
There are basically four model included in this model which are mentioned below:
Structured inquiry: In this model, students need to follow all leads of professor that allows
them to introduce question and also to provide guidance including resources, assessments,
activities.
Controlled inquiry: It is a model that allow students to explore one question among available
questions offered by teachers with use of selection of resources offered by teachers.
Guided inquiry: In this model, teacher introduce present topics for students and students are
allowed to develop their won questions and can also use their own resources for research.
Free inquiry: It is also important for students to provide support to teacher and also design own
question, customisation of summative assessments, selection of own resources in order reflect
what a person have learn.
Teaching strategy in STEM for children in early year
Teaching strategy: Teaching strategy and methods are defined as the methods as well as
techniques that are used by teachers provide support and assistance to their pupils and students
through adopting specific learning process. It is important for teachers to select best teaching
strategy that is suitable for the topic that is being studied, stages of learning journey as well as
level of expertise of the learner.
STEM: STEM education is defined as the teaching approach that is related to various
educational fields such as science, technology, engineering and maths. It also includes arts that is
related to the ability to expand the limit of STEM education as well as application.
Teaching strategy in STEM: In dynamic environment, teachers uses various teaching strategy
for improving students learning. Some strategies that are implemented by teachers are explained
below:
Team-based learning: It is defined as the pedagogical strategy that plays important role in
encouraging students’ knowledge through the concept of individual testing as well as group
collaboration. In this approach teaches encourage students to join team and work through
problems. It motivated students through making them accountable for to themselves and one
another. It facilitates them to interact with various team members and enhance their learning
regarding their subjects such as technology, science and other.

Visualisation strategy: Visualisation teaching strategy is defined as the academic concept to life
with visual and practical learning experience that helps students to understand how their
schooling pupils in real world. Teachers uses interactive whiteboard for the purpose of
displaying photos, video and audio clips that helps them to gain knowledge and learning
regarding subjects in efficient manner.
Inquiry-based instruction strategy: This teaching strategy is related to provoking questions
that inspire students to think in depth regarding issues and become more dependent learner. It
enables engineering and mathematics students to question and investigate their own ideas that
enhances their problem-solving skills and help to gain depth understanding of academic
concepts. Inquiry are also related to science and maths because it encourages students to express
their ideas and unique views to others is presentable manner.
Effective lecturing: Teachers also uses digital aspects such as slide presentation in large
auditorium to provide effective learning to students. instructor can consider different approaches
to lecturer that helps to provide more active as well as participatory thing, it enhances students
order to thinking and learning during classes. Students can learn in-depth concepts of science,
maths and other subject in interesting manner.
CONCLUSION
As per above presentation, it can be concluded that it is important for teachers to provide
effective learning to students in order to enhance their learning and understanding regarding
subjects. There are various teaching techniques that are implemented by the teachers that helps
students to gain depth understanding and help them to attain career development opportunities. It
is essential for teachers to encourage students to question regarding issues and problems because
it plays important role in enhancing their in-depth learning and understanding.

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