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75 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves Before, During, And After Teaching

Teaching / October 16, 2019 / Questioning

We’re sharing 75 questions students can ask themselves that can guide their thinking and awareness before, during, and after your teaching.

Misleading info is often based on partial truths & reframed to fit a purpose. Here are questions to help students think critically about news.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Teaching / September 28, 2017 / Inquiry, Questioning

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

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

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