Posts Tagged ‘inquiry’
Inquiry-The Cornerstone fo Homework Support
Have you ever heard someone say, “Curiosity killed the cat.” While this may be true for cats, it is absolutely not the case for our students. Curious students are learners, young people who are interested in finding out how things work. The opposite of these curious students are passive and show little initiative—actually they usually…
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The Socratic Method, named for the Greek philosopher, is a method that uses inquiry—asking questions—to deepen learning and understanding. The key in the Socratic Method is to be more concerned with what the student is learning than you are in giving the answers. So, inquiry—asking questions—becomes a key strategy for reinforcing what students know. There…
Read MoreQuestion to Solve Problems
A blog post entitled “What’s More Important: Knowing the Right Answers or Asking the Right Questions” explored the importance of questions and answers. This blog referred to the work of Hal Gregersen who argues “That the what-ifs, the why’s, and the why not’s are more vital to shaping a child’s lifelong creative intelligence than knowing…
Read MoreImportance of Transitioning Staff from Direct and Tell to Question to Connection
Have you ever had the experience of telling someone exactly what to do only to find out when you check back in that the task has not been completed in the way you outlined? Have you ever asked a child to clean his/her bedroom only to find that they have simply moved the mess around…
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