Inquiry and the Common Core: Librarians and Teachers Designing Teaching for Learning

by Violet H. Harada, Sharon Coatney

Overview

Practicing librarians and library educators demonstrate the power of inquiry to achieve the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and promote school librarians as key partners in implementing this type of critical teaching and learning in K–12 schools.

With the adoption of the CCSS in most of the nation's schools, educators and administrators at K–12 schools have a pressing need to find the best ways to implement these rigorous and comprehensive standards that challenge students to understand informational text and digital content at increasing levels of complexity. This text provides faculty with much-needed support in achieving this critical goal, thoroughly describing inquiry learning and how it links to the CCSS.

The authors—nearly 30 contributors total, comprising librarians, library media specialists, educational leaders, teachers from the kindergarten level to college professors, and administrators, each with direct experience and knowledge regarding the subject matter—explain how the standards' emphasis on in-depth investigation and evidence-based reading and writing skills dovetail perfectly with inquiry-based learning initiatives. Acclaimed thought leaders such as Jean Donham, Kristin Fontischiaro, Leslie Maniotes, and Barbara Stripling clearly define and illuminate the librarian's role in school initiatives today and share lesson plans that have been proven effective in actual practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610695435
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Violet H. Harada is professor emeritus in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Sharon Coatney is retired from her work as a Kansas school librarian and senior acquisitions editor at Libraries Unlimited. She is a past president of the American Association of School Librarians and a former councilor-at-large of the American Library Association.

Table of Contents

Foreword Allison Zmuda ix

Introduction Sharon Coatney xi

Part I Integration of Inquiry and the CCSS

Chapter 1 Inquiry Jean Donham 3

Chapter 2 What Is the "Core" of the Common Core State Standards? Olga M. Nesi 17

Chapter 3 School Librarians and the CCSS: Knowing, Claiming, and Acting on Their Expertise Deborah D. Levitov 31

Chapter 4 Putting the Pieces Together: Connecting to the Core Through Coteaching Curriculum Standards Judi Moreillon 49

Part II Models for Inquiry-Based Learning

Chapter 5 Guided Inquiry Design and the Common Core Leslie K. Maniotes 69

Chapter 6 Engaging Students Through Project-Based Learning Violet H. Harada Carolyn Kirio Sandy Yamamoto Elodie Arellano 83

Chapter 7 Inquiry in the Digital Age Barbara Stripling 93

Part III Planning for Meaningful Learning

Chapter 8 Evolution, Not Revolution: The Nudging Toward Inquiry Approach Kristin Fontichiaro 109

Chapter 9 Designing Learning Plans for Inquiry and the Common Core Violet H. Harada 127

Part IV Exemplars of Learning Plans

Plan 1 Just Why Does My Iowa Animal Live There? (Kindergarten) Shannon McClintock Miller Lynne Caltrider Brooke Gadberry Christa McClintock 135

Plan 2 Who Is the Best President? (Grade 1) Judi Paradis 145

Plan 3 Amazing Animals: How They Survive (Grade 2) Chelsea Sims 151

Plan 4 What's Our History? Our Sugar Plantation Past (Grade 3) Debora Lum 157

Plan 5 Water for a Thirsty Planet (Grade 5) Suzy Rabbat 163

Plan 6 Geography: Bringing the World Home (Grade 6) Elizabeth Gartley 171

Plan 7 Zombie Apocalypse: The Invasion of an Infectious Disease (Grade 7) Elizabeth Schau Chelsea Sims Lynda Johnson Ben Mosher Andrew Smith Scott Stimmel 177

Plan 8 Just One: The Holocaust Story of Use Sara Ury (Grade 8) Ronda Hassig 183

Plan 9 Understanding Communities Through Oral Histories (Grades 9-12) Sandy Yamamoto 191

Plan 10 Immigration Reform: Resource Evaluation-Discerning Purpose and Point of View (Grade 11) Michelle Luhtala Evan Remley Robert Stevenson 197

Plan 11 Human Impact on Earth's Systems (Grades 11-12) Fran Glick 205

Plan 12 Creating Twenty-first-Century Superheroes (Grades 11-12) Joan Upell 213

Plan 13 The Cloning Wars (Grades 11-12) Carolyn Kirio 219

Index 227

About the Editors and Contributors 237

Editorial Reviews

This book is an essential addition to the professional development collections of school library media practitioners, and it would ideally also land on the desks of school administrators who can support school librarians in their efforts to lead and collaborate with colleagues in inquiry-based CCSS implementation. This book is also a highly recommended addition to academic libraries, especially in institutions that support school library media and other teacher education programs.” —The Library Quarterly

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