Inquiry: The Key to Exemplary Science
Author: Robert Yager
Publisher: NSTA Press
Published: 2009-06-17
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 193515544X
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Inquire, Investigate, Integrate!
Author: Kaye Hagler
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1625216254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInquire, investigate, integrate . . . and inspire! In this book, Kaye Hagler presents thematic units that touch on core content in science with a common thread of literacy throughout. The integrated units not only engage students in content such as landforms, forces and motion, weather, life cycles, and food chains, but they also include reading and writing activities that engage students and connect content to literacy. Options for differentiation allow for all students to access important concepts across the content areas. Correlations to the NEXT Generation Science Standards and Common Core State Standards are also included for each activity. By design, these books are not printable from a reading device. To request a PDF of the reproducible pages, please contact customer service at 1-888-262-6135.
Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines
Author: Gillian Kidman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 113753463X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools, challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography and History disciplines, as well as focusing on the importance of the role of teacher in what is frequently criticised as being a student-controlled activity. Three frameworks, which are argued to be necessarily intertwined for discipline-specific literacy, guide this inquiry work: the classroom goals; the instructional approach; and the degree of teacher direction. The foundation of the analysis is the notion of educational inquiry as it is structured in the Australian Curriculum, along with the locating of the study in international trends in inquiry learning over time. It will be of great interest to researchers, higher degree students and practicing professionals working in Education and Sociology.
The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Professional Development
Author: Nancy Fichtman Dana
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1452239258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A tool box overflowing with ideas that will help every staff developer craft a school culture hospitable to adult and student learning." —Roland S. Barth, Author, Lessons Learned "The book speaks to many audiences, including instructional coaches, PLC leaders, action researchers and group leaders, and university professors working with action researchers and PLCs." —Gail Ritchie, Coleader, Teacher Researcher Network Fairfax County Public Schools, VA "A terrific resource for connecting teacher networks and action research to create powerful professional development opportunities. This book is a joy to read." —Ellen Meyers, Senior Vice President Teachers Network Powerful tools for facilitating teachers′ professional development and optimizing school improvement efforts! Professional learning communities (PLCs) and action research are popular and proven frameworks for professional development. While both can greatly improve teaching and learning, few resources have combined the two practices into one coherent approach. The Reflective Educator′s Guide to Professional Development provides educators with strategies, activities, and tools to develop inquiry-oriented PLCs. Nationally known school reform experts Nancy Fichtman Dana and Diane Yendol-Hoppey cover the ten essential elements of a healthy PLC, provide case studies of actual inquiry-based PLCs, and present lessons learned to help good coaches become great coaches. With this step-by-step guide, readers will be able to: Organize, assess, and maintain high-functioning, inquiry-oriented PLCs Facilitate the development of study questions Establish the trust and collective commitment necessary for successful action research Enable PLC members to develop, analyze, and share research results Lead successful renewal and reform efforts By combining two powerful training practices, coaches, workshop leaders, and staff developers can ensure continuous, robust school-based professional development.
Rx for the Common Core
Author: Mary Boyd Ratzer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding clear explanations of inquiry-based learning in the light of the Common Core, this book is a practical and graphical guide that will serve as a much-needed primer for librarians and educators. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are putting educators under pressure to examine what works and what doesn't. Even with the best efforts, integrating new strategies into daily practice in the classroom or library can be frustrating. This book will help. Providing a professional development toolkit that trains school librarians and teachers and enables them to train others, it presents a sequence of scaffolded essential questions that results in a customized blueprint for effective teaching. The book assembles background building blocks for inquiry and the Common Core, illustrates and connects key concepts on how to introduce inquiry-based learning, and provides effective tools for igniting the Common Core through inquiry-based learning methods. Developed from the crucible of six years of professional development to real-world audiences with deep experience in teaching and school librarianship, this book makes implementing inquiry learning and embracing the Common Core easier for classroom teachers and school librarians who understand the value of these teaching methods but are unsure of the best way to implement them.
Focus on Inquiry
Author: Alberta. Alberta Learning
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780778526667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechnology Enhanced Learning for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education
Author: Rafael Ferreira Mello
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 3031723155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reflective Educator's Guide to Classroom Research
Author: Nancy Fichtman Dana
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2014-04-28
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1483331954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarness the power of classroom data with the bestselling, updated guide to professional learning through inquiry and analysis. In this third edition of the renowned approach to teacher inquiry and data analysis, the authors add forward-thinking substance to their methods of formulating action research questions, collecting and analyzing data, and creating lasting solutions. In addition to illustrative real-life examples and practical exercises, new features include: An expanded data analysis chapter that introduces formative data analysis and its role in teacher research. Techniques for using inquiry to effectively implement Common Core State Standards. A brand-new chapter on ethical issues in teacher research.
The Evolution of Inquiry
Author: Daniel Callison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1610693876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefining the progression toward inquiry learning, this book provides an extensive overview of the past five decades and the evolution of inquiry in science, history, language arts, and information literacy studies. Information inquiry is a basic skill for those who examine information as a science, and its principles can be applied across the K-12 curriculum. Built around reflective reviews of more than two dozen articles from School Library (Media Activities) Monthly, this helpful book shows the evolution, adoption, and application of the inquiry learning process to the school library teaching/learning environment. Four levels of inquirycontrolled, guided, open, and freeare explored in association with the emerging national Common Core curriculum and the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner from the American Association of School Librarians. With the growing interest in the concept of inquiry and inquiry learning, you may find yourself needing to distinguish between the existing models and their applications. To help you do that, the book provides you with rich, historical context that clarifies the models, and it also projects future applications of inquiry and learner-centered teaching through school information literacy programs. These new applications, such as graphic inquiry, argumentation for inquiry, and the student as information scientist, offer tangible examples you can use to enrich the expanding information literacy curriculum.
InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards
Author: The Council of Chief State School Officers
Publisher:
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781461133575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese new model core teaching standards outline what all teachers across all content and grade levels should know and be able to do to be effective in today's learning contexts. They are a revision of the 1992 model standards, in response to the need for a new vision of teaching to meet the needs of next generation learners. This document incorporates changes from a public feedback period in July 2010.
