Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning

Great Books Professional Development
Why Learn Shared Inquiry?
Teachers who lead Great Books programs
strengthen their skills not only in language
arts but across the curriculum.
Teachers who learn Shared Inquiry:
• Improve their questioning strategies to
lead productive text-based discussions
• Help build students’ critical thinking skills
• Introduce students to rich and diverse
literature from around the world
• Challenge students to go further with
their ideas and opinions
• Use a nationally recognized method
of learning proven to improve student
performance
Call your Great
Books consultant
at 800.222.5870 to
schedule your course or
free introduction!
“Possibly the best PD I’ve ever attended. I loved
the fact that the focus of the training wasn’t
on the curriculum itself but more so on the
Shared Inquiry methodology that makes this
curriculum—or any other—come alive! After the
training, I felt better equipped as a teacher and
more enlightened as a thinker.”
—Maria Isabel Garcia
Instructional Coach, Sixth-Grade Teacher
Mater Gardens Academy • Miami, Florida
The Shared Inquiry
Essentials Course
In the introductory Shared Inquiry
Essentials Course, educators learn:
• What is Shared Inquiry?
• The importance of selecting complex
texts
• The Shared Inquiry sequence of
activities
• How to lead a discussion
• How to assess student performance
• How to integrate Shared Inquiry into
your curriculum
Cost and Format
• Course fee is $135–$475 per person,
depending on enrollment
• Blended course includes one day
(5 hours) of live instruction and 10
hours of web-based learning
• Live course is composed of two 5-hour
sessions on consecutive days
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