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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
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 by U.S. News & World Report.
Leslie K. Maniotes, PhD, is an education consultant and the cocreator and professional developer of Guided Inquiry Design®.
Ann K. Caspari is education specialist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and director of a professional development program for preschool teachers in the District of Columbia Public School on inquiry science for young learners.
Review :
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.
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.
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.
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.
