Effective teaching requires a teacher who has a flexible pedagogical practice within their program. HSIE is a very broad subject, so varied teaching skills and strategies need to be implemented to best suit any particular component of the subject (Reynolds, 2009). Within the mode of inquiry learning, teachers should outline the steps used and guide the children through this learning journey by following steps to guide the children towards using a greater use in higher order thinking skills. According to Bloom’s Taxonomy (Miller, Linn & Gronlund, 2009) children should be guided to expand their skills within the cognitive domain of learning.
It is from these thinking skills that children progress through the inquiry learning process. Murdoch and Wilson (2004) suggests that teachers should create a progressive program to support such skills:
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