Inquiry
Recommended Books Connected to Inquiry Learning to Support Life Long Learning for All.
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Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator's Mindset by George Couros and Katie Novak
"In Innovate Inside the Box, George Couros and Katie Novak provide informed insight on creating purposeful learning opportunities for all students. By combining the power of the Innovator's Mindset and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), they empower educators to create opportunities that will benefit every learner. '"
"Vintage Innovation redefines innovation not as 'new and flashy'but as 'better and different.' It isn't a rejection of new approaches or cutting-edge technology so much as an embrace of the old and the new.It's the overlap of the 'tried and true' and the 'never tried.'"
Inquiry Mindset: Nurturing the Dreams, Wonderings, and Curiosities of Our Youngest Learners by Trevor Mackenzie and Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt
"From their youngest years, our children are innately curious. They explore the world around them through play, imagination, and discovery. They build meaning, they create understanding, and they unabashedly share their learning. It’s in this process that they find joy in life and relevance in the world around them."
"Inspiring Curiosity is a practical guide for secondary school librarians as they collaborate with teachers and students to develop inquiry-based research projects. With success stories from librarians all over the U.S. illustrating how they’ve guided teachers and students through the research process, this book provides strategies for using memorable events to activate students’ natural curiosity and activities for generating essential questions for exploration."
"Want to make learning more meaningful in your classroom? Looking to better prepare your students for the world of tomorrow? Keen to help learners create authentic connections to the world around them? Dive into Inquiry beautifully marries the voice and choice of inquiry with the structure and support required to optimize learning for students and get the results educators desire."
"Genius Hour provides educators with the tools that they need to successfully implement genius hour, or passion projects, in the classroom. Presented through an easy-to-follow six-step strategy, teachers will utilize the six P's--passion, plan, pitch, project, product, and presentation--as a map for students to follow as they create, design, and carry out projects."
"Promote your students’ creativity and get them excited about learning! In this practical new book, authors Denise Krebs and Gallit Zvi show you how to implement Genius Hour, a time when students can develop their own inquiry-based projects around their passions and take ownership of their work."
Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom by Ross Cooper & Erin Murphy
"Project Based Learning can be messy, complicated, and downright scary. When done right, though, PBL and Inquiry are challenging, inspiring and fun for students. Best of all, when project-based learning is done right, it actually makes the teacher's job easier."
"Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future."
"Collaboration. Empowerment. Student Leadership. These buzz words get a lot of press, but what do they really mean for today's students? Can students really handle the responsibility of leading the class? Can they actually learn what they need to if they are working together so often?"
"This updated edition offers a new framework for changing your mindset and implementing a passion-driven classroom, where passion meets practice every day, as students learn new skills and explore their talents. You’ll come away with specific examples of how to set up your classroom, how to manage it, and how to assign passion projects where students take the lead."
"Are you ready for a change in your classroom? Do you want your classroom to be more student-led than teacher-driven?Do you want to offer personalized learning that meets the needs of the individuals?Do you want to build a sense of real community in your classroom and in your school?"
"Compliance is expecting students to pay attention. Engagement is getting students excited about our topics, interests, and curriculum. But when we empower students, they crave learning that is both meaningful and relevant to their life, now and in the future."
"Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people—especially those who report to us—we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes, to develop agility and flexibility, we need to practice Humble Inquiry."