Thinking through quality questioning

By Jackie A. Walsh

Subjects: Inquiry-based learning, Thought and thinking, study and teaching, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, Thought and thinking, Study and teaching, Active learning

Description: "This groundbreaking book provides teachers with an accessible, research-based blueprint for developing student meta-cognitive skills and ensuring that students take responsibility for their own learning. The authors use the findings of cognitive scientists to highlight quality questioning behaviors and explain how to apply them for improved student outcomes"-- Provided by publisher. "Thinking Though Quality Questioning provides teachers with an accessible, research-based blueprint for developing student meta-cognitive skills and ensuring that students take responsibility for their own learning. In this groundbreaking book, Walsh and Sattes use the findings of cognitive scientists to highlight quality questioning behaviors and explain how to connect these to discrete student meta-cognitive outcomes. Each chapter explicates teacher best practice in questioning and relates this to how students think and how they can be trained to manage their own learning"-- Provided by publisher.