Inquiry Mindset: Nurturing the Dreams, Wonders, and Curiosities of Our Youngest Learners Paperback – February 12, 2019

“A common myth about inquiry is that student agency and empowerment is only for particular students.”I appreciate how Trevor gives real-classroom examples how inquiry works for all students! A delightful read with just a touch of whimsy to go along with best practices in the classroom. Inquiry Mindset will stir up your passion for the classroom and give you tangible next steps. Supporting docs on his website are top notch as well.

Great resource to understand inquiry based learning and reformed classroom practices.Embodies IB schools, but would recommend for any teacher

After reading and loving Trevor's first book, Dive Into Inquiry, I hoped for a follow-up book aimed at elementary teachers. This is it! Inquiry Mindset supports and guides elementary teachers through the nuts and bolts of inquiry-based teaching and learning. It's format is approachable with tips for teaching and reflecting that can be put into practice right away. The Inquiry in Action steps at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to try something new, then share about the experience, making this book is ideal for a staff book study. Trevor and Rebecca bring their own classroom experiences to the table. As current classroom teachers, their knowledge and enthusiasm are genuine and credible. Think of them as the mentor colleagues you need to support your inquiry mindset. I suggest buying both books!

I read this book for a gifted book study I'm doing with my school district. I liked the book and found some useful tips in the first 1/2-3/4 of the book... the last 1/4 seemed unnecessary and to just fill pages.I have read a lot of gifted books, so I see a lot of the same recommendations in them, but it's nice to see reinforcements and examples of how other schools and teachers are using inquiry-based learning across the world (the examples are from Canada).

After reading Trevor's first book "Dive into Inquiry" i felt compelled to follow up with a book that would give the elementary teachers guidance on how to create a culture of Inquiry for the youngest minds. This book is exactly what you will need to help you foster an inquiry mindset in your younger students. Take a good look at all the wonderful sketches- if you are a visual learner like me, these will help you even more. The concrete examples provided in the book by its co author, Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt, are so easy to replicate and will spark more ideas for your implementation in the classroom. You won't go wrong with this book!

I purchased Inquiry Mindset and in four days I read the whole book. I was so excited to learn about all the different types of inquiry. I started reading the book and could not put it down. The book has amazing ideas for your classroom environment. It also gives you lots of ideas on how to set up different areas in your classroom so students can explore and discover answers to their essential questions. I have learned so many wonderful ways to promote inquiry in my classroom. I love the idea of the curiosity jar, the wonder window, the observation table, the cave and many more ideas. I took so many notes and I can't wait to use the ideas in my classroom. I enjoyed this book so much that I am ordering Dive into Inquiry. I highly recommend this book to all teachers who want to learn more about inquiry in the classroom.

If you are a teacher or you homeschool , this is a wonderful resource to have. It will require you to rethink how a a classroom functions and how to develop your lessons. If you are willing to slowly release your control of teaching “critical thinking “ skills with worksheets that have nothing to do with critical thinking, and help your students develop real-world critical thinking skills, then this book will be invaluable for your teaching. Inquiry Mindset is well written and very easy to understand and implement. It uses narrative anecdotes and step-by-step directions on how to begin using this method of learning. I can’t say enough good things about this book- it changed my students, and my, way of thinking.

This book does a great job exploring how to foster inquiry from many different directions. It is best ised when you are trying to add inquiry into your classroom, but not as helpful at teaxhing all your lessons through inquiry. When it came to practical implementation tips they point out a great deal of resources, but many of these can be come across on their own or are pretty obvious The one idea That seemed unique and I was interested in learning more about was never explained, but instead pointed me to another source to be explained.Overall this seems like a rehash of the first book with little updated and little information that can't be learned elsewhere. Save your 20 dollars and spend some time googling inquiry. If this is your first introduction to inquiry and your googlefu fails you it could be useful.