Inquiry-based learning has been getting a lot of attention lately for student engagement and developing 21st Century skills. Rather than being filled with teacher lectures, students are doing the research and driving the instruction. A lot of schools are adopting PBL to embrace this type of learning in the classroom. This acronym can mean Project-Based […]
What are you wondering when you hear…?: Student Engagement in a Project-Based Learning Primary Classroom
Integrating the QFT and Bloom’s Taxonomy to Increase Reading Comprehension With My Fourth Grade Male Readers
Two years ago I was focusing on boosting reading engagement among my struggling fourth grade male readers. As part of my interventions, I encouraged my students to read graphic novels, partner read, and write about their reading. After a few months of experimenting with these interventions and collecting data, I noticed great increases in reading […]
Controversy as Catalyst for Questioning: Students Question the Rolling Stone Cover after Marathon Bombing
This Tuesday, our weekly post from the field comes from Matt Parrilli (on RQI Network @mparrilli), an English department chair in Illinois. by Matt Parrilli Why do they make him look like a celebrity?” “Was the date and location of the bombing significant to him?” “What did his family do to fail him?” “Does where […]
Building Student Engagement in a Special Education Classroom
This is a guest post by Esther Lee As a special education teacher in New York City, I had gotten used to my heterogeneous classroom of kids. Last year, however, I was taken aback by my classroom that consisted of 9 to 12 year olds, with mild to severe disabilities of various kinds. I had […]
inQuiring minds #001
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