{"product_id":"9781416614425","title":"Inference: Teaching Students to Develop Hypotheses, Evaluate Evidence, and Draw Logical Conclusions (a Strategic Teacher Plc Guid","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou're holding an innovative professional development tool called a Strategic Teacher PLC Guide. Designed in partnership with more than 75 schools, Strategic Teacher PLC Guides make the important work of bringing high-impact, research-based instructional practices into every classroom easier than ever before. Each guide serves as a complete professional development resource for a team of teachers (or professional learning community) to learn, plan, and implement the strategy in their classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Strategic Teacher PLC Guide focuses on inference, or the ability to examine information, generate hypotheses, and draw conclusions that are not explicitly stated. Making inferences is a crucial foundational process that underlies higher-order thinking and 21st century skills. This PLC Guide walks readers through four research-based, classroom-tested strategies that help develop students' inferential thinking skills:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Inductive Learning helps students draw inferences by grouping data, labeling the data groups with descriptive titles, and using the groups to generate and test hypotheses.\u003cbr\u003e* Mystery presents students with a puzzling question or situation and has students examine clues that help them explain the mystery.\u003cbr\u003e* Main Idea teaches students how to use inferential thinking to construct main ideas that are not explicitly stated.\u003cbr\u003e* Investigation directs students to use various problem-solving approaches that require inference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis PLC Guide takes you and your colleagues on a \"guided tour\" of inference, enabling you to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Consider which of the four major inference strategies would best work in your classroom.\u003cbr\u003e* Look for opportunities to incorporate inference-based activities into your instruction.\u003cbr\u003e* Learn from sample inference lessons and planning forms designed by other teachers.\u003cbr\u003e* Design an inference lesson for your own classroom.\u003cbr\u003e* Examine student work at various levels of proficiency and use your findings to improve instructional decision making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Association for Supervision \u0026 Curriculum Development","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48321594753264,"sku":"9781416614425","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416614425_p0.jpg?v=1764100689","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416614425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}