“I Don’t Think I’ve Even Seen That Before”: A Self-Study of Teaching Preservice Teachers To Teach Through The Building Blocks of Inquiry

Despite knowing inquiry is good practice, social studies teachers struggle to enact inquiry-based instruction (Conrad et al., 2024). This self-study explores challenges of modeling (Loughran, 2007) the C3 Building Blocks of Inquiry in social studies teacher education which aims to prepare teacher candidates for inquiry-based teaching (Cuenca, 2021).