
Asking Better Questions
Teaching and learning for a changing world
- 128 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: The Mercurial Character of Contemporary Questions
- Introduction: Engaging with Things That Matter
- 1 Setting the Context
- 2 Questioning in a Rapidly Changing World
- 3 Three Capacities to Enlarge the Conversation
- 4 Leaving Home: Using the Questioning Capacities
- 5 Shifting Language to Reflect a Shifting World
- 6 Anchors in This Shifting World — Two Structures
- 7 What Do I Want This Question to Do?
- 8 A Glossary of Questions
- 9 Building a Community of Inquiry
- 10 Promoting Responsibility for Learning
- 11 Questions for a Changing World
- 12 Unwrapping a Mystery: Students as Questioners
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Index