INQUIRING MINDS TRAINING
What does a good question do?
- Stimulates different levels of thinking.
- Checks for and confirms learning.
- Expands knowledge and extend thinking.
- Piques curiosity, imagination, interest and wonder.
- Encourages demonstration and discussion.
- Prompts reflection before responding.
- Presents the purpose for learning as a question.
What will you take away from this training?
- Identify the types of good questions that promote cognitive rigor and student inquiry.
- Recognize the seven forms of inquiry students can engage in experience.
- Understand how good questions prompt students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and comprehend and communicate their learning at different levels of Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
- Pose good questions to activate, advance, assess and augment student learning.
- Rephrase the performance objectives of academic standards and learning targets into good questions that will set the instructional focus, serve as assessments, and personalize learning.
- Develop and deliver inquiry based learning experiences using the Inquiring Minds Framework.
- Choose which of the seven forms of inquiry students will engage in and experience based on the demand of the standards, the strength of the students, and the intent of the inquiry.
- Utilize generative artificial intelligence (AI) and e-search engines as a stimulus to come up with good questions students could address through inquiry and questioning.
- Plan and provide inquiry based teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive.
- Realize how teaching and learning with an inquiring mind ensures the experience is academic, affective, and authentic for all.