Why Are School Buses Always Yellow?: Teaching for Inquiry, PreK-5 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412957338 ISBN 13: 9781412957335

Publisher: Corwin, 2007

Deepen young students′ natural curiosity and strengthen questioning and thinking skills!

Discover how to use the inquiry process to teach mandated content in preschool and primary classrooms while making learning relevant and lasting for young children, including learners with special needs. The author uses real classroom examples, provides prompts for framing good questions, offers recommendations for Internet resources, and provides techniques to: 

• Introduce inquiry incrementally and systematically 
• Use objects, literature, and students′ experiences to stimulate inquiry 
• Help children turn their playful wonderings into deeper questions about content 
• Develop inquiry-based units that incorporate students′ queries

From the Author:

I am immensely pleased that Yellow Bus has become a Corwin "BestSeller."  It has been used by many faculty study groups to foster reflection on how we can encourage students to become more curious about the content they study.   Always being mindful of the topics each of us is required to teach, we can, however, provide opportunities for students to encounter within these subjects perplexities, mysteries and intriguing situations that stimulate inquiry and can lead to purposeful investigations within the established curricular guidelines, goals and objectives.I have also been heartened to learn from folks who used this book at the elementary level that its basic principles and approaches are just as applicable at the high school level.Yellow Bus continues to be, I hope, a reflection of what excellent teachers are doing to engage their students more fully in the learning process.Students who are excited about finding answers to their own questions--again, within guidelines outlined by their teachers--have a stake in their own learning and are, therefore, more highly engaged and motivated.

About the Author:

Learn more about John Barell′s PD offerings
John Barell is Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Teaching at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, and former public school teacher in New York City. For the past several years he has been a consultant for inquiry-based instruction and creation of science/social studies networks at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. For most of his educational career he has worked with schools nationally to foster inquiry, problem-based learning, critical thinking, and reflection. Barell is the author of several books, including Teaching for Thoughtfulness: Strategies to Enhance Intellectual Development (1995, 2nd ed.) and Developing More Curious Minds (2003).

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1412957338
• ISBN 13: 9781412957335
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Barell John F.