Douglas Llewellyn focuses on teaching science through an inquiry-based process, showing teachers how to implement inquiry using the three Rs of inquiry-restructuring, retooling, and reculturing. Inquire Within helps teachers design inquiries for their students and also provides ready-to-use inquiry lessons. Updates to the Third Edition include:
- Alignment with the new Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards
- A central focus on making and defending scientific arguments (i.e. argumentation)
- Guidance on developing the prerequisite attitude and mindset for becoming an inquiry- and argument-based teacher
- How to balance the meaning (the disposition) as well as the mechanics (the how-to) of inquiry and argumentation
- Background on self-directed learning
- Practice in climbing the ladder of professional improvement
- Many new vignettes of inquiry and argument-based activities that integrate language arts with science.
- New sections tie inquiry-based instruction to classroom management, language literacy, the nature of science, multiple intelligence, communication skills, and scientific argumentation.
- The Third Edition is now closely aligned with Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry and Argumentation
Douglas Llewellyn teaches science education courses at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. Previously, he was the K-12 Director of Science at the Rochester City School District, a secondary school principal, and a middle school science teacher. Llewellyn is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences on inquiry- and argument-based teaching, constructivist learning, and science leadership.
Title: Inquire Within: Implementing Inquiry- and Argument-Based Science Standards in Grades 3-8
Author: Llewellyn, Douglas J.
ISBN: 9781452299280
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2014-04-08
Number of Pages: 392
Weight: 0.9528 kg
For years Doug Llewellyn's books have provided a strong foundation for both beginning and veteran teachers as they integrated real inquiry experiences into science classes. Today teachers seeking deeper understanding of the Next Generation Science Standards are asking how inquiry fits into the broader array of Science and Engineering Practices/ This updated guide has the answers, expending and enriching the process of inquiry by showing how such practices as scientific argumentation fit. Llewellyn's model of teaching and his rich array of practical examples can help every teacher and student to experiences that clearly illustrate what scientists and engineers do. This is certainly a guide for the next generation of great teachers.
-- Juliana Texley, President-Elect
