While the Common Core couldnt be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. Thats what makes this book such an essential resource. It offers teachers an inquiry-based professional development model for achieving greater understanding of the standards themselves, then determining best ways to realize desired outcomes. How exactly does the model work? Teachers take charge of their own professional development by posing questions, or wonderings, to stimulate action and higher-level insight into the big ambitions of the Common Core. At the very same time, they engage in a parallel process of inquiry with their students in service of the very same goals. Assisting teachers along the ways, this book provides: tools to systematically study teaching effectiveness while adapting to new standards; classroom-ready, student inquiry techniques and strategies to apply within Common Cores framework; and real life inquiry-implementation examples from a high-need, high-poverty school. Ideal for both teams or individual teachers, theres no better resource for laying the groundwork for successful and thought-provoking classroom actualization amid shifting times.
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