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Supplying classroom-tested lessons and unit plans that can serve as templates, this book demonstrates exactly how to integrate and implement Guided Inquiry Design® (GID) theory into practice.Guided Inquiry is an approach that many educators-thought leaders and practitioners alike-are finding to be well-suited to information-age learning and a way to meet Common Core Standards. For many teachers, librarians, middle school leaders, and curriculum specialists, the biggest challenge is finding examples of guided inquiry in practice applicable to their own context. This guide offers an easy solution, offering ready-to-use templates and models for implementing Guided Inquiry Design® (GID) in the middle school learning environment. With each supplied lesson laid out according to the session plan templates from GID and a thorough description of the ideal inquiry process from beginning to end, integration and implementation of GID is attainable.
Besides showing how to put GID to best use to achieve five kinds of learning through inquiry, the book provides an explicit structure for developing instructional partnerships and collaborative teams within the school and with the larger community. It enables teachers, school librarians, and other educational partners to consider and plan for achieving outcomes that bring about deep understanding while also addressing curricular goals. Readers will be better equipped to provide an authentic learning environment using collaboration, discussion, and reflection embedded in the sessions, thereby helping their students to be able to think creatively to solve problems.
List of contents
CONTENTSForeword by Carol C. KuhlthauAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Guided Inquiry in the Middle School Chapter 2: Guided Inquiry Design FrameworkChapter 3: Schedules, Routines, and Strategies for Inquiry in Middle SchoolChapter 4: Inquiry Tools for Deep LearningChapter 5: Listen My Children: A Unit Blending History and Poetry Chapter 6: We're Coming to America: A Unit that Inspires Empathy and Understanding Chapter 7: True Detectives: An Interdisciplinary Unit Chapter 8: Celebrate Life!: A Unit About What Makes People GreatChapter 9: Getting Started and Sustaining ChangeReferencesIndex
About the author
LESLIE K. MANIOTES is a premier subject matter expert on inquiry learning. She serves BLV Consulting as CEO and as the lead education consultant providing professional development, coaching and guidance to educators and educational leaders worldwide. Leslie holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research on the Third Space in learning has served as a critical touchpoint to GID bolstering the focus on student engaged learning.LaDawna Harrington is a librarian at Avenel Middle School in Avenel, NJ. Her published works include Guided Research in Middle School: Mystery in the Media Center.
