Ages 9-18
Q Tasks: How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers
Carol Koechlin & Sandi Zwaan
Understanding is a process, and a critical key to improving understanding is through asking questions. This timely book shows teachers how to develop a questioning culture in their classrooms.
Offering pupils essential survival skills for the complexities of the information age, the authors present practical strategies that will empower them to become critical thinkers and users of information.
This step-by-step book outlines more than 80 tried-and-tested classroom activities that will take pupils beyond memorisation and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding. It focuses on tasks such as:
- evaluating the reliability of information
- connecting with literature and the arts
- analysing personal issues and setting realistic goals
- exploring scientific and mathematical concepts
- delving deeper into world issues
- testing new ideas
Each task is clearly presented and contains explicit teaching instructions, curriculum context and evaluation techniques. The flexible tasks are designed to nurture curiosity and cultivate wonder and imagination.
More and more, the demands of our world involve the critical and creative use of information. By encouraging pupils to ask their own questions, teachers help them develop the tools they need to cope better not just in school, but outside the classroom and into their adult lives.
Contents
Introduction; Encouraging Curiosity; Understanding Questions; Learning to Question; Questioning to Learn; Questioning to Progress; Moving Forward; Resources; Index
2006 144pp paperback
978-155138-197-8
£24.99
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