The move toward teaching through inquiry is evident in curriculum documents across the continent. In this book, you'll find a clear approach for incorporating inquiry into your classroom. Based on current research and solid classroom experience, authors Tina Jagdeo and Lara Jensen examine what inquiry is, then break it down into manageable steps that can be used with any K-12 age group. They explore and explain each step, providing real-life classroom examples. The Bold School model: provides a four-step inquiry process as a manageable way to deepen understanding and solve a problem or issue; focuses on the importance of critical, creative and compassionate thinking skills in today's world; uses provocations to kickstart inquiry and encourage students to wonder; builds a toolkit of strategies for research; encourages divergent thinking to brainstorm ways students can make a difference in local and global contexts; explores a variety of ways to take action,shows administrators how to support teachers to teach through inquiry.

Introduction -- Bold schools value thinking processes -- Learning how we learn -- Teacher preparation -- concept-based teaching -- How can we observe and get to know an issue? The role of provocations -- How can we tease out the facets of the problem or issue? Building thinking skills -- Deepening inquiry : teachers, technology, and small groups -- How might we use what we have learned to contribute to our lives or the lives of others? -- What type of change project can we design for a real audience -- Supporting classroom teachers -- the role of the administrator -- Conclusion -- letting go!.