In this Inquiry Study, participants will learn about or refine their understanding of the components of a quality reading program, or what some teachers organize as Reading Workshop. Participants begin by living as readers themselves and then explore how to create supportive contexts for the learners in their classrooms. The use of a variety of…

Teacher questions are an important part of a student-inquiry classroom. This research examines two different student-centered settings to determine the teacher questions that engaged students in mathematical thinking. It reports on questions asked in both a research setting and a high school classroom. Discursive and retracing questions are…

Because of its association with the first-year writing course and with what is presumed to be a practical rather than an intellectual function, the composition curriculum has long been regarded as devoid of "content." The result of this emphasis on practice and process is a curriculum in which subject matter has been deemed largely…

The National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) present a vision where students are active learners who use inquiry and who create products to represent their emergent understandings. However, educators may find it challenging both to assess student achievement and to communicate students achievement effectively to educational stakeholders.…

This paper proposes the construct of metacognition as a potential bridge between the concerns of educators and the concerns of researchers who study cognitive development. In so doing, it highlights, as another bridging construct, the phenomenon of transfer, or, more precisely, the absence of transfer. The difficulty of achieving transfer of…

This paper discusses how John Dewey's logic in his theory of inquiry can inform and perhaps guide efforts to re-form education and to allow the creative forces of emergence to affect and create adaptive social systems as learning organizations. The paper contends that Dewey's naturalistic theory of experience predated yet anticipated the…

This paper represents the results of research that involved volunteer high school students. Apprenticeship is a program in science and engineering that places students in science laboratories to provide them opportunities to improve their perspective on scientific principles and scientific inquiry. The study examined the effects of an eight-week…

The purpose of this article is to propose a base from which the study of Latin American culture might be initiated utilizing ideas from two new approaches. A plan is presented for organizing inquiry into Latin American culture around main ideas. (Author/KM)

The five steps in the basic process of inquiry are discussed. Methods to facilitate student inquiry in the classroom are emphasized. (Author/RM)

Activities to help the classroom teacher involve students in the process of raising, defining, investigating, and resolving problems and questions are suggested. Selected references are included. (Author/RM)

Author presents a simplified teacher question classification model as a first step in training teachers to question their students more effectively. (GB)

Some obvious difficulties of teaching and testing history as inquiry are reviewed. Examples of test items that require students to utilize thought processes developed through inquiry teaching are presented together with a rationale for their use. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is proposed as a useful tool in test construction. (SM)

This paper relates the function of history as a discipline of knowledge to the student's cognitive abilities and development. (Author)