Overview

Based on nine years of design, research, and open-inquiry lab teaching experience with over 600 children annually, Nine Thousand Straws presents an inquiry instructional approach that engages the inquisitive energy children naturally bring to the learning table. It offers practical methods and concrete guidance that will enable you to open, employ, and guide this energy towards developing productive and globally applicable thinking skills and dispositions.

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9781591586401

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<p> Bottom line: Amazing ideas, creative strategies, and practical tips make this book a candidate for the best professional book list of the year. Get it; read it; try its ideas. - <p>Teacher Librarian

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Jean Sausele Knodt is an educational consultant, studio artist, and former director, designer, and teacher of an open-inquiry instructional lab program, focused on mainstreaming gifted and talented instruction for all children of a Fairfax County, Virginia Public Elementary School. She has published articles in the ASCD journal, the ALPS website, and others about the open-inquiry approach to learning.

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