Randell K. Schmidt, Emilia N. Giordano, Geoffrey M. Schmidt

A Guided Inquiry Approach to Teaching the Humanities Research Project (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aligned with the Common Core, this book enables teachers and librarians to develop lessons and workshops as well as to teach high school students how to research and write a humanities paper using a guided inquiry approach. Being able to use the inquiry process to successfully research, write, and prepare papers and others types of presentations is not only necessary for a student's preparation for collegiate work, but is truly a requisite life skill. This book provides a solid guided inquiry curriculum for cultivating the skills needed to properly investigate a subject in the humanities, interrogate both textual and non-textual sources, interpret the information, develop an understanding of the topic, and effectively communicate one's findings. It is a powerful and practical guide for high school humanities teachers, school librarians, community college humanities teachers and librarians, and early college-level humanities instructors as well as for high school and college students who want to learn how to conduct and write up humanities research. Part one comprises a teacher's practicum that explains the power of guided inquiry. Part two contains student's workshops with instructions and materials to conduct a guided humanities project and paper on the high school level. The third part provides materials for a professional development session for this assignment as well as assessment tools and other supplementary materials such as student handouts. Based on the authors' 15 years' experience in teaching guided inquiry, the 20 workshops in the book use a step-by-step, constructivist strategy for teaching a sophisticated humanities project that enables college readiness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440834394
• Artikelnr.: 68183986

Autorenporträt

Randell K. Schmidt, MLS, is head librarian at Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, NJ.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Foreword by Carol Kuhlthau Acknowledgments Preface PART I.
TEACHER'S PRACTICUM Chapter 1: The Traditional Humanities Research Paper
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Research Question and the Decline of the Thesis
Chapter 3: The Information Search Process, Guided Inquiry, and the
Workshops Chapter 4: Interrogation of Sources and the Development of a
Researcher's Ideas by Directly Questioning the Materials Chapter 5: Media
Literacy and the Role of Social Media Chapter 6: Metacognition, Assessment
and Latitude: Measuring Growth PART II. STUDENT WORKSHOPS Prelude to a
Research Project Research in the Initiation Stage of the Information Search
Process Workshop 1: What Are the Humanities and Why Study Them? Workshop 2:
The Assignment Workshop 3: Encouraging a Variety of Sources and Formats
Workshop 4: Hunting for Information and Browsing for Ideas Research in the
Selection Stage of the Information Search Process Workshop 5: Coming Up
with a Topic and Beginning to Ask a Question Workshop 6: What Is Culture
and What Is Cultural Criticism? Workshop 7: Research in the Ubiquitous
Media Environment Workshop 8: Searching for Humanities Sources Workshop 9:
The Research Question Workshop 10: Responsibility to Academic Honesty and
the Problem with Plagiarism Workshop 11: MLA Style and Formatting Paper
Workshop 12: Taking Notes and Keeping Track of Information Research in the
Formulation Stage of the Information Search Process Workshop 13:
Interrogating the Sources Workshop 14: Further Developing the Research
Question into a Thesis: Using Ideas Uncovered While Interrogating the
Sources Workshop 15: How to Organize Your Borrowed Information Into an
Outline Workshop 16: Filling the Research Holes Research in the
Presentation Stage of the Information Search Process Workshop 17: Writing
the Paper Workshop 18: Writing a Conclusion and Creating a "Cover Page"
Workshop 19: Preparing to Peer Edit the Draft Research in the Assessment
Stage of the Information Search Process Workshop 20: Protocols for Turning
in the Research Paper and Learning Portfolio Appendix A: Plan for
Professional Development Workshop on the Guided Inquiry Approach to
Teaching the Humanities Research Project Appendix B: SLIM Packet Materials
Appendix C: Evaluation Samples and Rubric References Index