Product Details

• Author: Norah Morgan and Juliana Saxton
• Grade Range: K-8

• Media: 160 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-155138-209-8
• Item No.: WSB-8209

A Pembroke Publishers Title

Asking Better Questions explores the compelling role of questions in creating a powerful learning environment. Research tells us that the person who asks the question is the active learner, yet too many classrooms still revolve around teacher-generated questions.

This revision of a classic teacher resource recognizes that it takes time and diligence to become an effective questioner. Based on extensive classroom experience, this comprehensive guide:

• helps teachers understand why questions are so important to teaching and learning;
• suggests an uncomplicated way to classify the questions teachers need to ask in order to acquire information, build understanding, and generate reflection;
• promotes a simple three-part classification of questions—questions that tap into what is already known; those that build a context for shared understanding; and those that challenge students to think critically and creatively;
• offers models, techniques, activities, and examples which promote better questioning by teachers and students;
• allows for various entry points based on the interests and needs of the classroom teacher.

The book recognizes that “thinking” and “feeling” are the essential components of a classroom that respects and encourages questions. It is committed to helping teachers ask the appropriate question at the right moment, providing a variety of teaching stances, roles, and situations that will elevate language and encourage divergent thinking.

Table of Contents

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Questioning as a Democratic Skill
1. What Seems to Be the Problem?
2. A Question of Thinking
3. A Question of Feeling
4. The Example Lesson: Snow White
5. A Classification of Questions
6. The Example Lesson: Finding Areas
7. A Glossary of Questions
8. Fewer Questions, Better Questions, and Time to Think
9. Putting the Question, Handling the Answer
10. The Case for the Student as Questioner
11. Switching Places: The Student as Questioner
12. The Example Lesson: Ann Graham
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
Postscript

Norah Morgan
Norah Morgan was an adjunct professor at Brock University. She passed away Nov. 11, 2004.
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Juliana Saxton
Juliana Saxton is an associate professor at the University of Victoria.
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