Edutopia

Using the 5 Whys Approach to Deepen Student Thinking

Teachers can use a questioning strategy originally from the business world to guide students to confidently develop and ...
Edutopia

Using Questions to Encourage Emergent Learning

Understanding the importance of preschool students’ questions is key to guiding their learning experiences and fostering a ...
Kaleido Scope

Research on student-generated questions in the early childhood setting reveals promising results

A researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Education and Human Sciences recently partnered with a researcher at Birmingham Southern College to study the effects of using the ...
Education Week

All Learning, No Questioning: How Schools Smother Curiosity

When Susan Engel, a developmental psychologist at Williams College, decided to spend a few months observing suburban elementary schools, she had a specific goal in mind: to study variations in rates ...
The Daily Princetonian

Students want to ask speakers questions. Let them.

During his 2020 campaign for the Democratic nomination, a video of then-Harvard freshman Pete Buttigieg made its way around the internet. In the video, Buttigieg asks Larry Summers — Secretary of the ...