Educational Perspectives
And that is the question....It is increasingly clear that if you want to know what your students/children are thinking, shift your gaze away from their answers and listen carefully to their questions.
And while your at it, help your students to examine their own questions and choose the ones that take them down the most interesting roads - whether they are more or less traveled. Below are some articles about the most profound teaching tool we have - teaching the art of questioning. Below are two articles, both written by the same person (Eric Vogt) about questions.
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It is the job of every teacher to make sure each child in his or her class feels respected, safe to ask questions, challenged and noticed.
This page has articles that I think are worth reading and discussing as we consider who is thriving in our classrooms, who is not and why that is. Here is a video by an educational researcher named Angela Duckworth on what makes a person achieve (here).
Below is an excellent article by Beverly Tatum on achievement and race. Beginning on page 3, the article focuses on the history of how intelligence was measured in our society. It's fascinating and worth reading, sharing and discussing.
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