Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School (Libraries Unlimited Guided Inquiry)

Love it - brings so many ideas and teaching strategies together into a clear model that you know will support and engage students with 21st century learning.

Enjoyed

It was what I expected.

The GID is an effective learning process for students because it creates an empowered framework in which they take charge of their learning. This book helps educators design and implement the process, and assess student learning. It also offers opportunities for classroom teachers, school librarians, and other educators to create a team to support student success. I had the good fortune of co-leading a professional book study for GID: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School. School, public, and university librarians and librarian educators in Denton, Texas, participated and worked toward developing a community-wide understanding of this inquiry process. The GID works!

A colleague from another field pointed me toward this book and asked me whether I could use the structure in my teaching. I teach both a semester-long course and numerous one-shot library instruction sessions at a university. Carol Kulthau's framework would work well in the college setting, particularly in semester-long courses. Her eight phases help teachers learn to develop and explore their own questions in increasingly sophisticated ways. As for the library instruction classroom, I can see working with one phase at a time and producing some very productive sessions. A seriously useful read!

it's a textbook. using it for a voluntary book club, and wishing it had some more practical content on exactly how to work through a guided design inquiry project from beginning to end. still appreciate the ideas and rationale and look forward to sharing it with administrators at my school.