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    Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments

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    This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what ... Read more

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    Life Lessons from Polar Explorers

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    Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and being fully awake to lifes mysteries and opportunities. Based on the authors experiences exploring ... Read more

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  • Problem-Based Learning

    An Inquiry Approach

    A step-bystep guide for teaching your students to think critically and solve complex problems!In a world with increasingly global economies and competition, students need to learn how to think critically and analytically, and to apply their imaginations to solve complex problems. Problem-based learning (PBL) does just that, helping students identify problems, pose their own questions, research ... Read more

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    Antarctica fools you into thinking you are safe, that appearances are reality. Antarctica is not what she seems.Since he was thirteen years old, author John Barells life-longand life-enrichingdream has been to sail to Antarctica and explore its wild and expansive territories. Quest for Antarctica: A Journey of Wonder and Discovery recounts Barells Antarctic adventure that is not only captivating ... Read more

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  • How Do We Know They’re Getting Better?

    Assessment for 21st Century Minds, K–8

    Boost your students′ 21st century skillsHow do we measure students′ inquiry, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities so that we know they are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century? John Barell explains how inquiry leads to problem-solving and provides specific steps for pre, formative and summative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills. Included are ... Read more

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  • Why Are School Buses Always Yellow?

    Teaching for Inquiry, K-8

    Series Book 8 - Corwin Teaching Essentials
    Turn natural curiosity into deep, lasting learnings!Inquiry is what drives us all toward new knowledge, but how do we transform children’s natural ability to notice and wonder into the full learning cycle of observing, thinking, and critically questioning?Through this new edition of the bestselling Why Are School Buses Always Yellow? you’ll find simple, yet systematic ways to develop authentic ... Read more

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