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Informationen zum Autor Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Her books include Serious Players in the Primary Classroom , The New Teaching Elementary Science , Teaching for Thinking , and This Teaching Life . Klappentext This is the inspiring story of a group of teachers that engaged in inquiry about their own practice in order to support inquiry learning in their students. The Supporting Knowledge Integration for Inquiry Practice (SKIIP) is an exciting new professional development program that brings together the strengths and benefits of several existing models: participant-directed inquiry! school/university partnerships! and the shared pedagogical improvement model of Japanese lesson study. Based on the work of urban! public school teachers over the course of three years! the SKIIP approach was developed to assist teachers in the daunting task of integrating new pedagogies! curricula! and technologies into their practice. Zusammenfassung We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization! so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? This book provides classroom strategies that enable and empower students to grasp the 'big ideas' across virtually all curriculum areas and apply this knowledge to problem solving.
