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    Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers

    ByTerry Heick

    Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.

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    38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy

    ByTeachThought Staff

    We developed a taxonomy to provide a schema of prompts that could be used by students and teachers to hone their reflective thinking skills.

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    Students Should Be Able To Answer 50 Questions Before Graduation

    ByTerry Heick

    When should I lead and when should I follow? When should I talk and when should I listen–and what is the role of each in understanding?

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    20 Questions To Reflect On Your Teaching

    ByTerry Heick

    How can you reflect on your teaching to grow each semester/year? To make teaching easier? Better? More powerful? More fun? More efficient?

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  • What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
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    What Is The Purpose Of A Question?

    ByTerry Heick

    The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.

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    A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.

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    50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.

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    Good Teachers Stick To The Lines, Great Teachers Inspire New Lines

    ByDrew Perkins

    Great teachers go beyond being ‘good’ by leveraging student curiosity to spark beautiful questions and profound thinking.

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    4 Questioning Strategies For Effective & Thoughtful Teaching

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Questions can be a powerful weapon in a teacher’s arsenal, if applied with diligence. Check out these 4 questioning strategies for yourself.

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    100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking

    ByTerry Heick

    What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?

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  • 5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
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    5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions

    ByTerry Heick

    How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…

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    Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding

    ByTerry Heick

    The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.

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    A Second Look At Questioning In The eLearning Environment

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Questioning In The eLearning Environment by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ As discussed in A Primer in Effective Questioning, Part I, it is important that traditional and eLearning teachers employ a variety of question types that address a range of intellectual skills. Questions should not only be used to assess student comprehension of the material, but also…

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