{"id":156,"date":"2016-12-13T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.soe.umich.edu\/tripss\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:16:07","slug":"about-our-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/about-our-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project Summary:<\/h2>\n<p>Funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, we are a team of teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, and researchers who are currently developing and testing a sustainable professional development (PD) model to support inquiry teaching in social studies. We see inquiry teaching as a way to engage students in constructing and critiquing arguments and as a way to support students\u2019 disciplinary reasoning, discussion, and writing. Our site- based PD explores instructional practices that support student learning while participants attend to student thinking and co-plan, co-teach, and debrief lessons together (we build from the University of Washington\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tedd.org\/teacher-education\/learning-labs\/\">Learning Lab<\/a>\u00a0model). Instructional practices include eliciting and responding to student thinking, facilitating discussions, supporting small group work, supporting English learners and other students who have difficulty with literacy, modeling reading\/analysis of texts, and teaching argument writing.<\/p>\n<p>As we work with our school partners, we study teachers\u2019 thinking, instruction, and experiences with the PD in order to understand how the PD supports teachers&#8217; learning. Based on these findings, we continuously improve the PD so that it is supportive of teachers\u2019 learning and useful to their instruction. A teacher advisory group works with us as collaborators in this process so that the PD model is responsive to local priorities, constraints, and interests. Ultimately, our goal is to develop a sustainable PD model that can be replicated and that is engaging, useful, and supportive of both teachers\u2019 and students\u2019 learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg 759w, https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Summary: Funded by the James S. 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We see inquiry teaching as a way to engage students in constructing and critiquing arguments&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/about-our-project\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Our Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}