Today's students need to be fully prepared for successful learning and living in the information age. This book provides a practical, flexible framework for designing Guided Inquiry that helps achieve that goal.
Guided Inquiry prepares today's learners for an uncertain future by providing the education that enables them to make meaning of myriad sources of information in a rapidly evolving world. The companion book, Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, explains what Guided Inquiry is and why it is now essential now. This book, Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, explains how to do it.
The first three chapters provide an overview of the Guided Inquiry design framework, identify the eight phases of the Guided Inquiry process, summarize the research that grounds Guided Inquiry, and describe the five tools of inquiry that are essential to implementation. The following chapters detail the eight phases in the Guided Inquiry design process, providing examples at all levels from pre-K through 12th grade and concluding with recommendations for building Guided Inquiry in your school.
The book is for pre-K–12 teachers, school librarians, and principals who are interested in and actively designing an inquiry approach to curricular learning that incorporates a wide range of resources from the library, the Internet, and the community. Staff of community resources, museum educators, and public librarians will also find the book useful for achieving student learning goals.
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Guided Inquiry Design: The Process, the Learning, and the Team Guided Inquiry Process Phases of the Guided Inquiry Process Guided Inquiry Sessions Five Kinds of Learning Organizing the Guided Inquiry Learning Team Resources for Guided Inquiry What's Next? The Research Chapter 2: The Research Behind the Design Inside the Inquiry Process: What the Information Search Process Tells Us About Guiding and Intervening Zone of Intervention in the Information Search Process Stages of the Information Search Process Third Space: Where the Student's World Meets the Curriculum What's Next? Inquiry Tools Chapter 3: Inquiry Tools: Strategies for Guided Inquiry The Six Cs Inquiry Tools: Implementing Strategies Inquiry Tools are Interdependent Inquiry Tools for Assessment and Evaluation Inquiry Tools: Across the Guided Inquiry Process What's Next? Open Chapter 4: Open: Invitation to inquiry, Open minds, Stimulate curiosity Open in Guided Inquiry Invite Learners In Establish an Inquiry Stance Engage the Community What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Open Sessions What's Next? Immerse Chapter 5: Immerse: Build background knowledge, Connect to content, Discover interesting ideas Immerse in Guided Inquiry Build Background Knowledge Connect to Content Discover Interesting Ideas What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Immerse Sessions What's Next? Exploring Chapter 6: Explore: Explore interesting ideas, Look around, Dip in Explore in Guided Inquiry Explore Interesting Ideas Look Around: Browsing a Variety of Sources Dip In: Relax, Read, and Reflect What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Explore Sessions What's Next? Identifying Chapter 7: Identify: Pause and ponder, Identify inquiry question, Decide direction Identify in Guided Inquiry Pause and Ponder Identify Meaningful Questions Decide on an Inquiry Question What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Identify Sessions What's Next? Gather Chapter 8: Gather: Gather important information, Go broad, Go deep Gather in Guided Inquiry Go Broad: A Comprehensive Search on Inquiry Question Go Deep: Learning from Information Within Sources Gathering Important Information Decide What is Enough What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Gather Sessions What's Next? Create Chapter 9: Create: Reflect on learning, Go beyond facts to make meaning, Create to communicate Create in Guided Inquiry Reflect on Learning Going Beyond Facts to Interpret and Extend Create to Communicate Finding Authentic Audiences What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Create Sessions What's Next? Sharing Chapter 10: Share: Learn from each other, Share learning, Tell your story Share in Guided Inquiry Learn from Each Other Share the Learning Tell Your Story What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Share Sessions What's Next? Evaluation Chapter 11: Evaluate: Evaluate achievement of learning goals, Reflect on content, Reflect on process Evaluate in Guided Inquiry Evaluate Achievement of Learning Goals Reflect on Content Reflect on Process What is the Team Doing? What is the Learner Doing? Ideas for Evaluate Sessions What's Next? Building Guided Inquiry Chapter 12: Building Guided Inquiry in Your School The Research: Follow-up Studies of the Information Search Process Building Guided Inquiry: Content and Process Culmination Conversations for Building Guided Inquiry Building Guided Inquiry as a Way of Learning Across the Grades Building a Collaborative School Culture Getting Started and Sustaining Change Building Guided Inquiry in Your School List of Resources References Index
Carol C. Kuhlthau is professor emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, where she directed the graduate program in school librarianship rated number one in the country. Leslie K. Maniotes, PhD, is an educational leader in the Denver Public Schools as well as a curriculum specialist and national consultant on inquiry learning. A National Board Certified Teacher with 11 years of classroom experience, Maniotes has also worked as a Teacher Effectiveness coach and a K-12 literacy specialist. Ann K. Caspari is education specialist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and director of professional development program for preschool teachers in the District of Columbia Public School on inquiry science for young learners.
Reviews for Guided Inquiry Design®: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School
"""Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School provides a wealth of information on how to use guided inquiry to create a student-focused learning environment . . . This book is immensely useful for K–12 teachers and school librarians, as well as for academic librarians who are interested in adapting the guided inquiry process for one-shot information literacy workshops or semester-long research skills courses."" - Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table ""Drawing on experiences and research, the work will encourage, enable, and support the use of guided inquiry into any school, using examples and supporting findings. This is a welcome addition to any professional development collection in any academic setting."" - ARBA ""This research-based framework walks teachers through the inquiry process with a focus on collaboration and modeling. . . . This book makes visible to students the many things that researchers intuitively do during inquiry and makes it easy to apply for teachers and librarians."" - Library Media Connection ""The opening chapter provides an overview of the eight-step Guided Inquiry Design Process. . . . Subsequent chapters delve deeply into each step, backing it up with research, and showing how the larger team contributes to it. The final chapter explores 'Building Guided Inquiry in Your School.' Logs, diagrams, charts, and session plans clarify the process further and give you practical help for incorporating Guided Inquiry Design into your library program."" - School Librarian's Workshop"
