This document discusses the importance of inquiry-based teaching. It states that inquiry is a cornerstone of teaching that allows students' creative wings to carry their imaginations through curiosity and inventiveness. When teachers take an inquiry-based approach, they focus on cooperative and collaborative work, encourage students to make their own choices about learning topics and methods, and teach literacy by relating knowledge to human needs, the environment, and other species. Inquiry is considered foundational as it leads to a climate of democratic learning and positions teachers as cultural workers and artists.

1. N
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2. THE MAGNUM
PRINCIPIAN
OF TEACHING

3. Inquiry
!
A
cornerstone
of teaching

4. Creative
Wings
Teachers make it
possible for
student’s creative
wings to carry to
their imaginations

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to
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s
ad
le
curiosity & inventiveness
adventure
flying, walk or running
freely

6. They are all teachers!
The Inquiry Teacher
A life-long phenomenon emerging from the craft of teaching

7. The Sense of
Wonder
She wrote that a
child’s world is
fresh and new and
beautiful, full of
wonder and
excitement
She is Rachel
Carson

8. Key Belief
If a child is to keep
alive his/her inborn
sense of wonder, he/
she needs the
companionship of at
least one adult who
can share it,
rediscovering with
him/her the mystery of
the world we live in—P.
Freire

9. Vygotsky said:
the teacher who is
experimental is
willing to push into
new zones of
proximal learning
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, So v
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Psy
an

10. Inquiry is Seeking Answers to Questions
Unknown
The Crater
Woolly Mammoth
St. Petersburg, Russia
Coprolite

11. Key Ideas
Learned from
Inquiry Teachers

12. Be Innovative & Flexible

13. Focus on Cooperative and
collaborative work

14. Right-to-Choose
They encourage students to make choices
about topics and ways of learning

15. Teach New Literacy:
Knowledge as it relates to
human needs
the environment
social needs
needs of other
species

16. Life-long Goals
Learning how to
learn
How to ask
questions

17. Why
Inquiry

18. It’s Foundational

19. Hallmark of thinking in a
democratic society—-Dewey

20. Leads to a Climate
of Learning
Democratically
organized
Teachers as cultural
workers
Teachers as artists
in their own right

21. Inquiry is the magnum principian of
teaching because it instills an attitude
and emotional sense of wonder that
does not depend on techniques, but a
deep sensee of purpose as a teacher—
Jack Hassard