Inquiry Archives

The Difference Between A Good Question And A Bad Question

A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.

Teaching / April 17, 2022 April 18, 2022 / Inquiry

False dichotomies about inquiry teaching advanced by critics are detrimental to the students and society that so desperately need it.

Teaching / February 3, 2022 February 5, 2022 / Inquiry

Unfortunately, teachers are increasingly getting swept into the morass of culture wars playing out in our media and political processes.

Education / November 15, 2021 December 28, 2021 / Critical Literacy, Inquiry

Costa’s levels of questioning feature three tiers of questioning designed to promote higher level thinking and inquiry.

Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.

Teaching / October 5, 2021 December 27, 2021 / Inquiry, Terry Heick

One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.

Critical Thinking / September 7, 2021 December 28, 2021 / Inquiry, Questioning

Teaching students to ask good questions engages them & acts as ongoing assessment. Here are some of the benefits of inquiry-based learning.

Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question (or questions).

What are some of the most common types of questions for teaching critical thinking? This led to many dozens of answers.

Critical Thinking / February 22, 2021 December 5, 2021 / Inquiry

According to the creators, the question formulation technique helps build skills for lifelong learning, self-advocacy & democratic action.

The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.

This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.