3rd Edition

Asking Better Questions Teaching and Learning for a Changing World

    160 Pages
    by Pembroke Publishers

    How do we help students make sense of our increasingly-complex digital world? The 3rd 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. It shows teachers how to challenge students to assume a deeper ownership of their learning, ask questions that are important to them, and care about the answers.

    Introduction: Questioning as a Democratic Skill 1 What Seems to be the Problem? 2 A Question of Thinking 3 A Question of Feeling 4 The Example Lesson: Snow White 5 A Classification of Questions 6 The Example Lesson: Finding Areas 7 A Glossary of Questions 8 Fewer Questions: Better Questions and Time to Think 9 Putting the Question, Handling the answer 10 The Case for the Student as Questioner 11 Switching Places: The Student as Questioner 12 The Example Lesson: Ann Graham. Appendixes

    Biography

    Juliana Saxton, Carole Miller, Linda Laidlaw, Joanne O'Mara