Curiosity in the Classroom
A curiosity-rich classroom is a classroom where students — and teachers — thrive.
Cultivating curiosity in the classroom, for students and ourselves, can often feel secondary to aligning with curricular standards and meeting performance goals. But research shows that curiosity is not second fiddle to learning — it is learning. Below you’ll find an array of strategies, activities, and programming that will support you in sparking curiosity in the year ahead.
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Begin Each Week with Curiosity
Hooray For Monday is Inspired Teaching‘s weekly collection of actionable insights, expert advice, and practical resources for teachers, school leaders, parents, and all adults who want every classroom to be filled with enthusiasm and excitement for learning. These issues have been curated to highlight content that focuses specifically on curiosity, but you can find curiosity infused into every Hooray For Monday!
Professional Development to Cultivate Curiosity
Inspired Teaching Institutes are FREE, improvisation-based professional development for teachers and school leaders. They move participants beyond passive professional learning: Inspired Teaching teaches the way people learn best – with our whole selves. Join us online or in person each month.
As we jump into the new year, self-management and goal-setting are hot topics amid our resolutions and plans to “start fresh.” What does this look like in our classrooms? CASEL defines “self-management” as “the ability to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations.” In this webinar, we’ll explore engaging ways to practice self-management and we’ll have the unique opportunity to learn from Adrian Loving, an art teacher, contemporary art and music historian, visual artist and DJ/ entrepreneur with a creative perspective on the topic.
What is the relationship between hope and achievement? Do your students feel hopeful about how they are doing in your class or how they will do in their life in general?
In this workshop, we will dive into research that shows a correlation between hope and the ability to achieve goals. We will practice five different activities you can do with your students to help them plan toward reaching goals, use improvisational thinking to troubleshoot challenges and build confidence and motivation to keep learning and growing.
Inspire Curiosity
All of Inspired Teaching’s lessons and activities are rooted in the Inspired Teaching Approach and designed to help educators build their practice as Inspired Teachers, cultivating curiosity in their classrooms and themselves. The ready-to-use and adaptable lessons and activities below are great places to get started!
