learning and scholarship

Provides an introduction to Guided Inquiry, and looks at the eight phases in its planning process.

A collection of eleven essays by leading experts who address integrating inquiry across the kindergarten through twelfth-grade curriculum, and includes field-tested curriculum materials based on the national standard, assessment data, and first-person accounts.

Explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions, structured in three parts: 'learning within classrooms', 'learning foundations', which explains the cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and 'know thyself' which explores confidence and self-knowledge, and features interactive appendices containing study guide questions to encourage critical thinking.

Introduces the guided inquiry design framework; describes how this approach can transform learning in schools, and how to embed student research in the inquiry process on different grade levels.

In Kids Deserve It!, Todd and Adam encourage you to think big and make learning fun and meaningful for students. While you're at it, you just might rediscover why you became an educator in the first place. Learn why you should be calling parents to praise your students (and employees). Discover ways to promote family interaction and improve relationships for kids at school and at home. Be inspired to take risks, shake up the status quo, and be a champion for your students. Offers strategies for making learning fun and meaningful through promotion of family interaction, taking risks, being a champion for students, and more.

"Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be reconnected with their early childhood curiosity. Let's put that control back into kids' hands by teaching them to question better. The Power of Questioning will help you to make students partners in their own learning."--Provided by publisher.

Provides practical, research-based strategies for improving teaching skills in order to raise student achievement, covering management, instruction, motivation, and curriculum.

Demonstrates how to integrate digital media and applications into the classroom to build a culture of pleasurable learning.

"Transform your library into a 'think tank' by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards"--Provided by publisher.

Careers in the 21st century are changing, but traditional education methods are not preparing students for these new jobs and demands. In this thought-provoking book, esteemed educator A.J. Juliani describes how we need to modify our classrooms to instill in students the drive for inquiry and innovation that they will need to succeed beyond school doors.