This document discusses inquiry-based learning and provides guidance for teachers on structuring inquiry in the classroom. It defines inquiry as a process involving research, collaboration, and presentation/reflection. When done well, inquiry creates choice, personalization, relevance and empowerment for students. The document acknowledges challenges like content coverage and assessment but advocates for guided inquiry over teachers simply asking known questions. It suggests gradually moving toward more open-ended student-driven inquiry and provides examples for using technology and senior projects. Teachers are encouraged to reflect on how inquiry could change their teaching practice.

1. Beyond Googling:
Building Conditions for
Structured Inquiry
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
@chrislehmann

2. #isteinquiry

3. How do you define
inquiry?

4. Process

5. Inquiry
Research
Collaboration
Presentation
Reflection

6. Inquiry Creates:

7. Choice

8. Personalization

9. Relevance

10. Empowerment

11. Care

12. Inquiry Complicates:

13. Covering Content

14. Planning

15. Assessment

16. Inquiry isn’t:

17. Us asking kids
questions we know the
answers to.

18. When Inquiry is Scary:

19. (the blank page)

20. Guided Inquiry

21. For example...
http://bit.ly/SLAPublicInfo
http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory
http://bit.ly/SLA_SFP

22. Discussion:
What is something you have taught in the
last year that you could restructure to
enable more learner-centric inquiry?

23. Next Question:
What are your fears about doing this?
What fears might your learners have?
How will you mitigate those fears?

24. Using Tech:

25. Ubiquitous, Necessary
and Invisible

26. Discussion:
How can you use technology at every
phase (inquiry, research, collaboration,
presentation, reflection) of the inquiry
process to enable student learning?

27. Open Inquiry

28. Senior Capstone
http://bit.ly/SLACapstone

29. Reflections

30. Reflection:
How would a deeper movement into the
inquiry process change your teaching?
What needs to happen for you to move
further in this direction?

31. What are your walk-
away questions?
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