Educator creates a learning environment where questioning promotes curiosity, critical thinking, and inquiry.
Uses a variety of questioning strategies (e.g., asking intriguing questions, demonstrating how to ask complex questions, etc.) to engage learners, guide learning, foster critical thinking and encourage reflection.
Provides structured opportunities and strategies for learners to generate a variety of questions, classify, analyze and improve their questions to promote complex ideas.
Uses strategies that encourage learners to consider questions deeply and participate in class conversations (e.g., small-group discussions, think-alouds, think-pair-share).
Uses wait time to allow learners to process questions and to encourage discussion.
Develop questions that reflect curiosity, creativity and innovation.
Generate questions in order to design investigations and drive their learning.
Write, classify, analyze and improve questions (e.g., move from close-ended to more complex, open-ended questions).
Pose questions that go beyond factual knowledge and require inference, analysis or synthesis of multiple types of information.
Derive new and more complex questions to investigate as they pursue their questions.
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