The document discusses using primary sources and shared inquiry to encourage critical thinking in students. It recommends teaching students real-world skills and unique questioning strategies. Shared inquiry discussions are suggested, where students carefully read a text beforehand and support their interpretations with evidence, while listening to and responding to other students. The leader's role is to ask guiding questions rather than giving their own analysis. Five guidelines are provided for effective shared inquiry, including preparation, discussion of ideas, use of evidence, active listening, and the leader facilitating rather than interpreting.

1. Using Primary Sources to Encourage Shared
Inquiry
With Kim Moore

3. Building Background Knowledge
Teach students to be critical thinkers by providing them with real-
world experiences blended with a unique questioning strategy .
The Constitution only
gives people the right to
pursue happiness. You have
to catch it yourself.
----Benjamin Franklin

4. A Classroom for Shared Inquiry
Create meaningful discussions that draw from
conversational language that includes academic
vocabulary.
Sharing and listening
while collaborating in
regards to something
that is meaningful to
the student will
result in great
conversations and
discussions.
www.georgiastandards.org

5. A Classroom for Shared Inquiry
Five key guidelines to engaging in a successful Shared
Inquiry discussion:
 Participants must read the selection carefully before the
discussion.
 The goal of the group is to discuss the ideas in the text and
explore them fully.
 Participants should support interpretations of the text with
evidence from the work.
 Everyone needs to listen carefully to the other participants and
respond to them directly.
 The leader is there to ask questions rather than offer his/her own
interpretations of the text.

6. Urban Academy Laboratory High School
New York, NY
Discussion leaders provide direction and guidance in order to get
participants thinking, listening, and responding to questions and answers from
others in their discussion groups.

7. The Spirit of Liberty
A Speech by Judge Learned Hand
Individual Rights pp. 50-51 SE

9. Thanks Leah Ashley
Teacher on Special Assignment
Henry County School District

10. A Classroom for Shared Inquiry
Five key guidelines to engaging in a successful Shared
Inquiry discussion:
 Participants must read the selection carefully before the
discussion.
 The goal of the group is to discuss the ideas in the text and
explore them fully.
 Participants should support interpretations of the text with
evidence from the work.
 Everyone needs to listen carefully to the other participants and
respond to them directly.
 The leader is there to ask questions rather than offer his/her own
interpretations of the text.

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