Problem-solving and critical thinking are both skills and habits that allow students to apply and transfer academic knowledge into the real-world.
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In the first stage of curiosity, students are primarily concerned with procedural knowledge: What they’re supposed to do and how.
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Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
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What is Four-Dimensional questioning? The way you ask a question yields different results and can lead you in different directions.
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No longer does the teacher need to be only responsible for ‘covering’ content, a practice that often feels like climbing the down escalator.
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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?
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Much like project-based learning, there are many reasons to use inquiry-based learning in your classroom–starting with creativity and personalization.
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The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
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Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
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What’s The Question Game? A playful way to help students learn to ask the right question at the right time–with a paper cube.
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The power of “I don’t know” returns the learning to the student and restores the scale of understanding to a universe of knowledge.
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Like anything else in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning, priority, and practice.
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