Unleashing Curiosity with Quality Questioning
Unleashing Curiosity with Quality Questioning
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Questioning is about more than getting an answer. It’s a dynamic strategy to achieve new understanding, enhance student motivation, and advance learning.
With this 8-page durable guide that is part of our Curiosity Works® series, teachers can improve their students’ motivation to learn by asking questions that promote and sustain curiosity, and by fostering students’ abilities to ask—and pursue answers to—their own questions.
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A question can be more than a means to elicit information. When students answer a question, they begin to understand new information, construct ideas, apply knowledge, and demonstrate understanding. When they ask questions, they begin to form mental models; explore connections among ideas; consider different perspectives; elaborate, enrich, and broaden their understanding; and transfer and generalize their knowledge to new situations. Thus, it’s important to reflect on the kinds of questions we ask, starting with this one: How can we ask questions that will effectively propel learning? McREL's Curiosity Works® resources are based in part on a successful system-wide effort in Melbourne, Australia, that improved student achievement by helping teachers and school leaders develop precision without prescription, unleashing student curiosity.
Combining these insights with McREL's analysis of best education practices from around the world, our Curiosity Works resources support a better way of transforming schools—not through top-down pressure, but by helping teachers and school leaders work together to develop shared professional expertise and leverage the power of motivation and curiosity.
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Our Unleashing Curiosity guides are part of McREL’s Curiosity Works® resources. Based in part on a successful system-wide effort in Melbourne, Australia, that improved student achievement by unleashing student curiosity, these resources give teachers and school leaders tips, suggestions, and ideas to encourage professional dialogue with other teachers and increase student curiosity. Combining these insights with McREL’s analysis of best education practices from around the world, our Curiosity Works resources support a better way of transforming schools—not through top-down pressure, but through helping teachers and school leaders work together to develop shared professional expertise and leverage the power of motivation and curiosity.