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**Welcome to Salt Lake City School District's Inquiry Teaching and Learning site!**


This Wiki is a space for teachers to share ideas, lesson and unit plans and discuss inquiry teaching.


 * **Teachers,** to save your lesson plans and/or units, please select the Teacher Lesson Plans or Teacher Unit Plans on the menu to the right, then upload your work to the page.



Inquiry-based instruction? Inquiry-based instruction is a student-centered and teacher-guided instructional approach that engages students in investigating real world questions that they choose within a broad thematic framework. Inquiry-Based instruction complements traditional instruction by providing a vehicle for extending and applying the learning of students in a way that connects with their interests within a broader thematic framework. Students acquire and analyze information, develop and support propositions, provide solutions, and design technology and arts products that demonstrate their thinking and make their learning visible.
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Research shows that the amount of student learning that occurs in a classroom is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in the educational program (Cooper and Prescott 1989). Yet research studies indicate that teachers typically dominate classroom conversation, consuming nearly 70% of classroom time. Inquiry-based instructional approaches reverse this trend, placing students at the helm of the learning process and teachers in the role of learning facilitator, coach, and modeler. ~ cited from Northern Illonoise University