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Role of the Leader

The leader's role in Shared Inquiry Discussion is to be open and curious. Click on a quality listed below; details will appear to the right.

A good leader of Shared Inquiry Discussion is:

The Basic Leader Training Course is designed to help people learn how the leader’s role can become a dynamic dimension of their own teaching style.

Not an Explainer

Discovery and insight represent a deeper, more active form of learning. When a teacher begins to explain a story, students no longer need or want to develop an interpretation of their own. The student never learns that she could have made sense of it for herself.

Because she poses a genuine question for Shared Inquiry Discussion, the leader is able to resist the temptation to explain, and can maintain an environment in which students feel encouraged to think for themselves.

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Getting Started with Great Books in the Classroom

Click here to read the JGB text for Jack and the Beanstalk.

The best introduction to Shared Inquiry and using Junior Great Books is the Basic Leader Training Course.
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