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= Reframing Teaching into Inquiry Based Learning = = = Jeffrey Wilhelm promotes the use of inquiry and essential questions to engage at risk students in language arts and the content areas. According to Wilhelm, essential questions “should engage the students, build upon their current interests/need for personal relevance, and also promote deep understandings.” According to Wilhelm, traditional, sometimes unmotivating, topics of study can be reframed using inquiry to motivate students. He challenges teachers to “think outside the box and provide electronic materials, popular- culture texts, picture books, young-adult texts, musical recordings, and other materials that are used for literacy and learning outside of school”, which fits well into a media literacy framework for instruction in literacy and the content areas.

Through the use of inquiry based learning, teachers can provide multiple means of engagement, representation and expression for students.



For additional information, see //"Inquiring Minds Learn to Read"// by Jeffrey Wilhelm

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