Asking Better Questions
eBook - PDF

Asking Better Questions

Teaching and learning for a changing world

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Asking Better Questions

Teaching and learning for a changing world

About this book

How do we help students makes sense of our increasingly complex digital world? This third edition of this classic text shows teachers how to empower students with the skills they need to ask critical and reflective questions about the overwhelming amount of information around them.

Asking Better Questions offers comprehensive tools and strategies to promote critical thinking and discussion in the classroom and encourage engaged and empathetic listening. Stimulating activities throughout the book promote lifelong inquiry skills that will help teachers and students grow in the classroom and explore broader issues in the community beyond. Challenge your students to assume a deeper ownership of their learning, ask questions that are important to them, and care about the answers.

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Yes, you can access Asking Better Questions by Juliana Saxton,Carole Miller,Linda Laidlaw,Joanne O'Mara in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Professional Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Foreword: The Mercurial Character of Contemporary Questions
  7. Introduction: Engaging with Things That Matter
  8. 1 Setting the Context
  9. 2 Questioning in a Rapidly Changing World
  10. 3 Three Capacities to Enlarge the Conversation
  11. 4 Leaving Home: Using the Questioning Capacities
  12. 5 Shifting Language to Reflect a Shifting World
  13. 6 Anchors in This Shifting World — Two Structures
  14. 7 What Do I Want This Question to Do?
  15. 8 A Glossary of Questions
  16. 9 Building a Community of Inquiry
  17. 10 Promoting Responsibility for Learning
  18. 11 Questions for a Changing World
  19. 12 Unwrapping a Mystery: Students as Questioners
  20. Appendixes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index