5 Ways to Make Better Questioners
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The document outlines five strategies for fostering a culture of questioning in classrooms and beyond, emphasizing its importance for learning and adaptation in a rapidly changing world. It encourages creating supportive environments for inquiry, where questioning is celebrated and integrated into daily activities. By transforming questioning into a habit and engaging students in thoughtful exploration, the document argues that this skill will benefit them throughout their lives.
5 Ways to Make Better Questioners
- 1. 5 Ways to Make Better Questioners
- 2. Questioning helps us learn, explore the unknown, and adapt to change.
- 3. That makes it a most precious “app” today, in a world where
- 4. everything is changing and so much is unknown.
- 5. And yet, we don’t seem to value questioning. In our workplaces and in our classrooms
- 6. it is the answers we reward—and questions are barely tolerated.
- 7. To change that is easier said than done. But here are some
- 8. suggestions on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and
- 9. in life beyond the classroom, where we’re really going to need it.
- 12. Questioning can be scary, an admission to the world that you don’t know the answer.
- 13. Create an environment where questioning becomes a strength, where it is welcome and desired.
- 14. One activity to kick it off: Have groups “questionstorm” an issue— no answers allowed!
- 17. Questioners are the ones breaking new ground in music, movies, and the arts.
- 18. They’re the explorers, the mavericks, the rebels.
- 19. They’re the explorers, the mavericks, the rebels. How cool is that?
- 20. Share their stories. Show where questioning took them.
- 23. Let kids tap into their imaginations and innate question-asking skills.
- 24. Make inquiry an engaging part of any challenge.
- 25. “Can you turn that statement into a question?”
- 26. “Can you open your closed questions and close your open ones?”
- 27. “Can you use ‘the 5 whys’ to get to the root of a problem (like why do kids stop asking questions)?”
- 30. Make grappling with a question & sharing it with others a rewarding process.
- 31. Praise and celebrate the questions that are asked—even the off-beat, crazy ones.
- 34. Turn questioning into a habit.
- 35. Observe the familiar in fresh ways. Be willing to be considered “naïve.” Question assumptions.
- 36. Make a great question an ongoing project, a report, or an original creation of some kind.
- 37. Discuss how questioning is used and what was learned.
- 38. If you’re a teacher, ask yourself
- 39. How might I encourage more questioning in the classroom?
- 40. How might I instill the habit of inquiry in my students?
- 41. Knowing the answers may help them in school Because…
- 42. but knowing how to question
- 43. but knowing how to question will help them in life.
- 44. Read more on the power of questioning in our lives. AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com
- 45. Read more on the power of questioning in our lives. AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com RightQuestion.org
- 46. Read more on the power of questioning in our lives. AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com RightQuestion.org Edutopia bit.ly/BetterQuestioners