The Shared Inquiry method and Great Books programs help educators transform classrooms into vibrant, student-centered learning environments that get results--not only for your students but for you, too. Our professional development, materials, and research-based strategies recognize that teachers are learners. Want to support your own ongoing learning? Make Great Books a part of your curriculum.

Create a community of active learners

• Increase collaboration, respect, and tolerance for divergent thinking among students
• Build on students' strengths; value students' experiences and insights
• Engage students in thinking about essential questions and big ideas in great literature
• Provide support and challenge to all students
• Help students gradually assume responsibility for questioning--each other and the text

Improve your questioning skills

• Frame discussion questions and writing prompts that are open-ended, yet focused on reading for meaning
• Show genuine interest in students' ideas and improve listening skills
• Sharpen follow-up questioning to deepen thinking and discussion
• Learn transferable strategies that build critical thinking and reading comprehension

Receive support from the Great Books Foundation

• Learn Shared Inquiry through active engagement in our professional development courses; receive support from our outstanding instructors with modeling, theory, and hands-on practice
• Know that your students are reading literature tested and proven to engage them in higher-level thinking
• Conduct powerful, easy-to-use activities to help you structure students' reading, note-taking, and writing