Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice

Other than a name, this is a tight and unmarked copy.-" Want to make learning more meaningful in your classroom? Looking to better prepare your students for the world of tomorrow? Keen to help learners create authentic connections to the world around them? Dive into Inquiry beautifully marries the voice and choice of inquiry with the structure and support required to optimize learning for students and get the results educators desire. With Dive into Inquiry, you'll gain an understanding of how to best support your learners as they shift from a traditional learning model into the inquiry classroom where student agency is fostered and celebrated each and every day. This book strikes a perfect balance of meaningful pedagogy, touching narrative, helpful processes, original student examples, and rich how-to lesson plans all to get you going on bringing inquiry into your classroom. After reading this book educators will feel equipped to design their own inquiry units in a scaffolded manner that promotes a gradual shift of control of learning from the teacher to the learner. Exploring student passions, curiosities, and interests and having these essential shape questions, units of study, and performance tasks are all covered in this powerful book. Learn to keep track of the many inquiry topics in your classroom and have students take ownership over their learning like never before! Trevor MacKenzie provides readers with a strong understanding of the Types of Student Inquiry and proposes a framework that best prepares both educators and learners for sharing the unpacking of curriculum in the classroom as they work together towards co-constructing a strong Free Inquiry unit. Helpful illustrations for in-class use, examples of essential questions from a variety of disciplines, practical goals for making progress in adopting inquiry into your practice, and powerful student learning on display throughout, Dive into Inquiry will energize, inspire, and transform your classroom! Review: This book is important! MacKenzie has written a powerful argument for inquiry learning to form the basis for twenty-first-century education. He offers a detailed explanation as to why this approach is crucial in the current world economic climate. His useful classroom examples from his own experience and worldwide will help any teacher implement new student-driven learning. The empowerment of young people to be agents of their own learning is the most pressing issue in this rapidly changing world and MacKenzie has created a blueprint to ensure this happens. Richard Wells, author of A Learner's Paradise, Deputy Principal, Orewa College, New Zealand Dive into Inquiry has quickly become my favorite how-to book on inquiry-based learning. Filled with practical examples and solid structures that I know I can implement immediately, it has convinced me that I can create the kind of learning space my students deserve. It is an approachable read that will change both your thinking and your practice for the better. Bill Ferriter, teacher, author, and education consultant, USA Trevor MacKenzie has written a fascinating book that takes the theory of inquiry-based learning and explores the practicalities needed to put the approach into successful operation. His passionate argument is underpinned by a deep understanding of the importance of feedback, pupils owning their own learning, and the need for clarity of outcome from the outset. I particularly like the graduate approach to developing inquiry learning. Too often this approach fails because pupils have not been taught nor mastered the skills necessary to successfully undertake such an approach. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the power of pupil-centered approaches to learning. Andy Buck, teacher, author, and founder of Leadership Matters and #honk, a fellow of the RSA, England.".…