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== In her blog post, How Do Inquiry Teachers... Teach?, Kath Murdoch says " Programs and planners don’t make inquiry happen. Teachers and learners do." With that in mind, how do teachers choreograph inquiry in their classrooms? ==

Q1. What does it mean to be an inquiry teacher? #pypchat Q2: How do inquiry teachers remain focused on concepts rather than facts? #pypchat Q3: How can teachers "let go” and do more listening"? #pypchat Q4: How do you balance planning with allowing for inquiry? #pypchat Q5: How do we gather data but not get so caught up in it that it impedes learning? #pypchat Q6: If inquiry is student-driven, how do schools manage expectations when the same thing doesn't happen in every class? #pypchat Q7: What is the best way to bring teachers up to speed in “inquiry.” #pypchat Q8: What defines success in an inquiry-based classroom?
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Rubric for Discipline and Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry Studies from Galileo Network Instruction Factors Associated with Inquiry-Based Instruction (figure 2) from Equipping Teachers: A Protocol to Guide and Improve Inquiry-Based Instruction Earshot App - "Like a Fitbit gathers information to help us reach our fitness goals, Earshot gathers data to help teachers reach their instructional goals." Visible Thinking Routines - from Harvard Project Zero
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