Guided Inquiry: keeping our students engaged in their learning

What is Guided Inquiry?
"Guided Inquiry is carefully planned, closely supervised targeted intervention of an instructional team of school librarians and teachers to guide students through curriculum based inquiry units that build deep knowledge and deep understanding of a curriculum topic, and gradually lead towards independent learning. Guided Inquiry is grounded in a constructivist approach to learning, based on the Information Search Process developed by Kuhlthau, for developing students’ competence with learning from a variety of sources while enhancing their understanding of the content areas of the curriculum." It is a work in progress, spearheaded by Ross Todd, founded on Carol Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process http://www.cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/guided_inquiry/introduction.html
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