One part practical guide, one part interactive journal, this book provides the opportunity to do inquiry as you read about it. You’ll learn what inquiry-based instruction looks like in practice through five key strategies, all of which can be immediately implemented in any learning environment. This resource offers
• Practical examples of what inquiry looks like in the classroom, and how to do it • Opportunities for reflection throughout the book, including self-surveys, templates, and tools • A user-friendly handbook format for quick reference and logical progression through your inquiry journey • Fifty practical inquiry experiences that can be used individually, with students, or in small groups of teachers
Kimberly L. Mitchell teaches at the University of Washington’s College of Education and is co-founder of Inquiry Partners, a professional learning organization dedicated to promoting inquiry-based teaching strategies. She received her BA in History and Philosophy from Skidmore College and her MA in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband (a middle school teacher) and two children.
Table of Contents
ForewordAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIntroduction1. What Is Inquiry?My Own Inquiry JourneyExperience #1: Inquiry Self-Survey2. Beginning Your Inquiry JourneyHow to Use This BookTips for SuccessWhat’s the Role of Administration?The Inquiry Leader Self-Reflection ToolStaff Reflection SurveyThe Importance of Balance and Harmony3. Taking Stock of Your ClassroomExperience #2: How Do You Know If You’re “Doing” Inquiry?Experience #3: What Do Your Students Think?Experience #4: What Do Others See in Your Classroom?Experience #5: What’s the Student Experience?Experience #6: What Does All This Tell You?4. What Does Inquiry Look Like?The Inquiry Five StrategiesExperience #7: What Are Your Burning Questions About Inquiry?Experience #8: Who, When, and How Should You Answer Questions?Experience #9: How Can Questions Be Savored?Experience #10: What Does Your “Ideal” Class Look Like?5. Strategy #1: Get PersonalIntroduction to Get PersonalExperience #11: Mad-Libs: Who Are You?Experience #12: Who Were Your Teachers?Experience #13: What Stories Can You Tell?Experience #14: How Do You Tell a Story That Sticks to the Soul?Experience #15: What Does Your Classroom Say About You?Experience #16: Why Do You Teach?Experience #17: What Is the Third Space?Experience #18: Ask Me Anything!6. Strategy #2: Stay CuriousIntroduction to Stay CuriousExperience #19: What’s Your Expertise?Experience #20: What Still Intrigues You?Experience #21: Who Are Your Teachers Today?Experience #22: Are You a Luddite or Linkedin?Experience #23: What Do You Teach?Experience #24: What Would Your Curriculum of Questions Look Like?Experience #25: What’s Your Teaching Approach?Experience #26: How Do You Respond to Students?7. Strategy #3: Ask More, Talk LessIntroduction to Ask More, Talk LessExperience #27: What’s Really Happening in Your Classroom?Experience #28: Who Is Hiding in Plain Sight?Experience #29: What Questions Are You Asking?Experience #30: How Do You Teach With Your Mouth Shut?Experience #31: How Do You Get Students to Listen to One Another?Experience #32: How Do You Get Students to Talk Together?Experience #33: What Are Socratic Seminars, Harkness, and Spider Web Discussions?Experience #34: Which Questions Work Best in Inquiry Classrooms?8. Strategy #4: Encourage EvidenceIntroduction to Encourage EvidenceExperience #35: What’s the Most Important Question to Ask?Experience #36: How Do You Get Your Students to Back Up Their Claims?Experience #37: How Do You Teach “Crap Detection”?Experience #38: How Do You Provoke Healthy Debates?Experience #39: How Can You Practice the Evidence-Seeking Process?9. Strategy #5: Extend Thinking TimeIntroduction to Extend Thinking TimeExperience #40: How Do You Get Students to Think More?Experience #41: How Can You Get Students to Ask More Questions?Experience #42: How Do You Cede Control Without Losing It Completely?Experience #43: How Do Inquiry and Mindfulness Connect?Experience #44: How Can You Support Innovative Student Thinking?Experience #45: How Do You Start Project-Based, Problem-Based, and Challenge-Based Learning?10. Now What?Experience #46: How Do You Plan for Inquiry?Experience #47: How Do You Assess Inquiry?Experience #48: How Do You Make Time for Inquiry?Experience #49: How Do You Explain Inquiry to Skeptics?Experience #50: What Does Inquiry Look Like to You?11. Inquiry ResourcesKimberly’s Top Ten ListsInquiry BooksInquiry Videos and PodcastsInquiry OrganizationsInquiry BlogsAppendicesMore Reasons to Fall in Love With Inquiry: the Inquiry Five (i5) and Alignment DocumentsThe i5 and Common Core State StandardsThe i5 and Next Gen Science StandardsThe i5 and Danielson Teaching FrameworkThe i5 and Marzano FrameworkThe i5 and Approaches to Teaching and Learning (International Baccalaureate)The i5 and High Leverage Practice (Teaching Works, University of Michigan)Curriculum at-a-Glance (Southern Hemisphere)ReferencesIndex