Learning to Teach Inductively

This book is built around one essential and powerful teaching model: the inductive model. Beginning teachers must learn and master this model, enabling them to build learning communities in which every child succeeds. Inquiry of oneself as a teacher and learning to lead inquiry by students are the two faces of effective teaching, and Joyce and Calhoun provide practical, informative advice on developing them.

Learning to Teach Inductively invites the teacher candidate or teacher to instruct inductively, from an exploratory, teacher-researcher frame of reference. Built around scenarios of effective practice with inductive teaching in general and the picture word inductive model specifically, the text familiarizes the teacher with ways of leading students to collect and analyze information, build and test concepts and hypotheses, and learn complex skills across the curriculum. Emphasis is placed on teaching K-8 students to read and write and to make the reading/writing connection. The basic academic areas are approached as problems of developing literacy, with reading and writing across the curriculum stressed throughout. The text emphasizes teaching as inquiry and prepares the teacher to conduct action research as a part of professional practice.