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Professional Development Presentation
10 Structures for
Teaching with Student-
Directed Inquiry
SCED647
Xuewen Wu
By Harvey "Smokey" Daniels
(Heinemann, 2017)
The main ideas of the book:
• Students will engage more
deeply in their learning if we
organize instruction around
their curiosities and interests.
• This book shows us how to do
just that by presenting 10
structures to help gradually
introduce student- driven
inquiry.
Discussion:
What is student-directed
inquiry?
• Provide students with the maximum right
to voice and choice.
• Teachers and students plan together,
planning is based on the interests of the
What is child, rather than standards or tests.
• The teacher respects the curiosity of the
students- students and starts with the elements of
interest to the students in the prescribed
directed units and topics.
• Start small and develop students' inquiry
inquiry? ability through a lot of practice.
• This approach emphasizes collaboration,
empathy, and authentic audiences with
authentic assessment.
Chapter 1
Demonstrate Your
Own Curiosity
• Daniels models how teachers
might do this by sharing his own
list of real-life questions. He does
this by creating a two-column
chart to share his self questions
in one column – his personal and
local wonderings – and his world
questions in the other –
wonderings about wider issues
that others might also wonder
about.
Share your out-of-school life
methods in
Chapter 1 Show how you take a risk