Inquiry Archives

Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines

Teaching / September 28, 2017 / Inquiry, Questioning

Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.

The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.

Teaching / May 1, 2017 / Inquiry

Sylvia Duckworth’s graphic illustrates questions students can use to guide inquiry-based learning ideas that act as a catalyst for curiosity.

Among the benefits of inquiry-based learning, requiring the student to take an active role in the process may be the most significant.

Questions can be a powerful weapon in a teacher’s arsenal, if applied with diligence. Check out these 4 questioning strategies for yourself.

Are our professional development Actions all pointing towards our Purpose and Vision? How well are they accomplishing those things?

Aligned thinking, rich inquiry, authenticity, autonomy, and meaningful assessment are characteristics of project-based learning that works.

Teaching / January 6, 2016 / Inquiry

Many teachers think in terms of Essential Questions. While these are often helpful and important to teachers, are they important to students?

I. Education is both industrial and fundamental; it is the mutual product of both engineering and affection. II. This makes

Do we fully understand the long-term effects of science–and if we don’t, how should that change how we “practice science”?

If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is

Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select