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=Persuasive Presentation: Rough Draft= Research Model: I nquiry

Audience : Elementary teachers (urban) after TAKS test

Relevance : Include examples that correlate to subject area teks.

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media type="custom" key="8608504" Beginning: questions: why should I use a research project in my class? What will I get out of it? what will the students get out of it? The goal of the presentation is to demonstrate to teachers the value of the inquiry model to teachers and students. In the presentation we will go through the steps of the inquiry model.


 * Are you** **busy?**
 * Feel awash in paper?**
 * Do you have a crushing work load?**
 * Or stressed out?**

Are your students tired of in class worksheets and test prep?


 * Your teacher-librarians can help rejuvenate you and your students.**

Pair of dimes shift subject content remains essential but no longer as an end in itself but as the means to hone inquiry skills and attitudes-this is the critical outcome Well-prepared inquiry learning projects result in new knowledge formation* as learners construct cogent and compelling connections where previously there was only masses of disparate data As educators inquiry provides student with content learning, information literacy skills and technological acumen that will allow students to be active learners well into dotage. Middle : g﻿o through inquiry steps with one sample project ( prek science or 5th social studies project) An effective inquiry provides a context, a framework, and a focus to process
 * Here's HOW. Learning via inquiry, a knowledge-seeking model. Discovery through questioning, planning, gathering, evaluating, and information,**

**teacher-librarians work with classroom teachers to offer authentic 21st century learning experiences for children to bring about greater understanding of the world in which they live, learn, work and play.** **The Inquiry Process: Changes the focus from what students know to how students come to know** **One such ‘how’: the inquiry process. Championed by Barbara Stripling it is an __interactive__ cycle that teaches the research process in all content areas.** **It promotes __critical thinking__ and __higher level processing__;** **It encourages the use of __more varied__ and __appropriate resources__;** **It offers an __evidence gathering__ and __problem solving__ process that will be useful for young citizens throughout their life.**

**Advantages of inquiry include:**

**Cooperative learning** **Integrated through all content areas** **Accommodates different learning styles** **Utilization of multiple intelligences** **Built in self-assessment at each step along the way.** **Employs all of Blooms.**

**Add to the mix: 21st Century Teaching Tools: Carnesi; Berger** **Capitalize on student interest in the web to engage them in the content**

**Questioning: __Web quest__; purpose to aid students in narrowing the topic; __background knowledge__, from which they create __open-ended__ questions using who, what, when, where, why, how**

**Planning: due dates; check out projects elsewhere to get an idea of how to plan an inquiry to its completion**

**Collecting Information: documenting information; avoiding plagiarism**

**Organizing the Information: use of graphic organizers**

**Synthesizing the Information**

**Communicating results**

End: summarize the value this process and collaborating with the library can make: from prewriting page: **"promotes lifelong learning; beyond subject knowledge inquiry learning provides a process that facilitates childrens' ongoing learning throughout their lives"**

Sample projects:

**preK science - life cycle; I have been collaborating with the bilingual pk team, so fleshing this out is a possibility**

**3rd grade - Language Arts; working with the title __Flat Stanley__ while working with a geographic location, each student creates a story about where the well-traveled Stanley goes on his journeys and what happens to him along the way. Teacher librarian would provide tie-ins with information literacy and technology web 2.0 expansions.**

4th grade - Music - movement and dance; students select one culture and learn research their dances. Students will then explain the significance and perform the musical games and dances from the culture.

**5th grade - social studies; inquiry into the presidents; students select one to learn more about; they make judgments as to his administration's success or failure.**

**Persuasive piece openers:**