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Inquiring Into the Common Core

Foreword by Ann Lieberman



June 2013 | 112 pages | Corwin

Common Core implementation begins with asking the right questions!

While the Common Core couldn’t be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That’s what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource. It offers teachers an inquiry-based professional development model for achieving greater understanding of the standards themselves, then determining best ways to realize desired outcomes.

How exactly does the model work? Teachers take charge of their own professional development by posing questions, or wonderings, to stimulate action and higher-level insight into the big ambitions of the Common Core. At the very same time, they engage in a parallel process of inquiry with their students in service of the very same goals. Assisting teachers along the ways, Inquiring into the Common Core provides

  • tools to systematically study teaching effectiveness while adapting to new standards
  • classroom-ready, student inquiry techniques and strategies to apply within Common Core’s framework
  • real life inquiry-implementation examples from a high-need, high-poverty school

Ideal for both teams or individual teachers, there’s no better resource for laying the groundwork for successful and thought-provoking classroom actualization amid shifting times.


 
List of Figures
 
Foreword by Ann Lieberman
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
1. The Common Core and Inquiry
What is the Common Core?

 
How did the Common Core Develop?

 
Why Is the Common Core Important?

 
How Is the Common Core Different from the Status Quo?

 
What Difference Will the Common Core Make to Teachers and Students?

 
How Can Teachers Learn More About the Common Core and Its Relationship to Their Practice?

 
How Can Teachers Actualize the Common Core in their Daily Approach to Teaching?

 
Where Can I Learn More About the Common Core?

 
 
2. Teacher Inquiry: The Basics
What is Inquiry?

 
Components of the Inquiry Process

 
Where Can I Learn More About Inquiry?

 
 
3. Teacher Inquiry Into the Common Core: The Story of Lareal
Finding a Wondering and Developing an Inquiry Plan

 
The Start of Lareal’s Inquiry

 
Collaborating with the Reading Coach

 
Continuing the Inquiry Journey

 
Summative Data Analysis and Sharing with Woodson Faculty

 
 
4. Student Inquiry: The Basics
What is Student Inquiry?

 
What Is the Relationship Between Student Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards?

 
How is Teaching as Inquiry Different from the Status Quo?

 
What Does Teaching as Inquiry Look Like in Practice?

 
What’s the General Structure for Student Inquiry?

 
Where Can I Learn More About Student Inquiry?

 
 
5. Student Inquiry and the Common Core: The Story of Mary
First Things First: Creating a Culture of Inquiry

 
Starting Small: An Inquiry-Based Lesson

 
Expanding Horizons: An Inquiry-Based Unit

 
 
6. Making the Common Core Come Alive Through Inquiry: Lessons Learned
Lessons About Teacher Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards

 
Lessons About Student Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards

 
The Most Important Lesson

 
 
References
 
Index

Review Pending

Professor Gary Vause
Biomedical Hlth Info Sci Dept, University of Illinois - Chicago
September 27, 2013
Key features
(1) Applies the process of teacher inquiry to help teachers gain insights into the Common Core as teachers try out new techniques and strategies related to Common Core implementation in their classrooms.

(2) Promotes the use of inquiry-based teaching to help students develop higher-order and critical thinking skills and prepare them for college- and career-readiness.

(3) Chapters Three and Five illustrate Teacher Inquiry into the Common Core Standards and Student Inquiry in the Classroom respectively with real examples from teachers and coaches from a high-need, high-poverty school that has focused its inquiry work around the Common Core.

(4) Book is well suited to the work of teacher teams as well as individual teachers.

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