What Does Inquiry in SS Look Like?
by Lindsay Roseke
1. engage in worth-while and valuable work
2. Thinking, Acting, Behaving like...
3. Current Issues
4. Controversies
5. Balance the 'messiness' with the 'focus' - what drives the inquiry?
6. Activity Based vs Inquiry Based - the driving question
7. Go beyond the classroom - how can what the students learn be shared? how can you give students a voice?
8. Critical Thinking: considers bias, perspectives, makes informed decisions
9. Historical Thinking: build the lesson around the skills, not just the facts, dates, names, etc.
10. Throughline Questioning: Link to self, subject matter, society
11. Dangerous Teaching - consider the unasked questions and give students a voice
12. Consider how you approach the content, what topics are important, your relations with students
13. 9 Elements of Inquiry
13.1. authenticity
13.2. academic rigour
13.3. assessment
13.4. life skills
13.5. appropriate use of technology
13.6. active exploration
13.7. connecting with experts
13.8. elaborated communication
13.9. compassion
14. Connect what you love to do to the classroom
15. Academic Rigour: Apprenticeship model of teaching
15.1. Pursue Inquiry
15.1.1. Invite students in