The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
What’s The Question Game? A playful way to help students learn to ask the right question at the right time–with a paper…
The power of “I don’t know” returns the learning to the student and restores the scale of understanding to a universe of…
Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching…
Sylvia Duckworth’s graphic illustrates questions students can use to guide inquiry-based learning ideas that act as a catalyst for curiosity.
Among the benefits of inquiry-based learning, requiring the student to take an active role in the process may be the most significant.