Managing Group Work: Flexible Roles
Learn how to implement flexible roles during group work.
Learn how to implement flexible roles during group work.
Concentric Circles get students talking to different classmates, allowing them to hear from a variety of perspectives in response to a series of prompts. This protocol fosters understanding of different perspectives while promoting students’ speaking and listening skills.
How does Jaclyn Share, an Instructional Coach specializing in science and social studies in Wheeling, IL support students in taking informed action? Read this month’s spotlight to find out!
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The Human Story: Early People and Ancient Civilizations offers a thematic, inquiry-based approach to teaching World History and Ancient Civilizations in middle school. Centered on universal concepts such as cultural practices, systems of writing, and innovation across early societies.
The following are examples of the variety of ways students from around the country have taken informed action in response to an Inquiry Question in the Meeting Needs and Wants Inquiry.
Learn more about this guide, which is designed for classroom teachers using Clever for student access to inquirED’s curriculum.
The Inquiry Advocate Course is designed for teacher leaders, coaches, or other designated individuals who will be supporting teachers as they implement inquirED Social Studies. Each session aims to enhance participants’ knowledge, skills, and strategies to address common challenges that...
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices include eight distinct practices.
Every Inquiry Journey’s Inquiry is punctuated by Landmark Lessons. Learn how these lessons have a specific function that shapes the direction of your Inquiry.
Learn how teachers with access to inquirED’s Assignment Portal can create, assign, and manage assignments.
Inquiry Journeys and World History are embedded with a variety of multimodal assessment opportunities for teachers to measure student learning. In this course, participants explore the assessment cycle and various assessment tools, and connect them to the needs of...
When students are working independently, it's helpful to have a system in place for students to get help. The Queue, Cups, and Sheets are three systems that can help.
Learn more about this guide, which is designed for classroom teachers using ClassLink for student access to inquirED’s curriculum.
Conver-stations allow students to discuss topics in constantly changing small groups. Use this format in response to complex discussion prompts or sources (ex. photos, videos, audio recordings, or written text).
Popcorns challenge students to share their ideas without talking over each other, which is great practice for real-life discussion skills. Use this strategy when it’s not necessary to hear from every single student in response to a prompt or question.
Using an Anticipation Guide is an excellent way to ensure students have a clear direction and purpose for their reading. In the center column, write main ideas, key details, and important concepts you want students to be on the lookout...
Explore the organization and practical use of printed resources alongside the digital curriculum for a seamless teaching experience.
While there is no single definition of culturally responsive instruction, at inquirED we've established a set of criteria to describe its use in our curriculum and to guide us as we continue to evolve. We've developed these criteria from the...
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) was developed by the Right Question Institute to help anyone produce, improve, and prioritize questions. Use this scaled version of the protocol with emergent readers or writers to generate Investigation Questions that will help them...
Inquiry Journeys is embedded with a variety of multi-modal assessment opportunities for teachers to measure student learning. In this course, participants explore the assessment cycle and various assessment tools, connecting them to their school or district needs.
Explore how teachers and students use inquirED’s Assignment Portal to create and complete assignments.
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through the "Differentiation in Inquiry" course.