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ERIC Number: EJ964554
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jan
Pages: 2
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1076-2175
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Curriculum Issues: Using Questions to Elevate Thinking
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce
Gifted Child Today, v35 n1 p68-69 Jan 2012
Instructional strategies have always been underestimated for their role in enhancing gifted student learning. The use of deliberate questions is a critical strategy for getting gifted students to learn about their world in more complex and in-depth ways. It provides multiple pathways for challenging the gifted through their content learning. It enhances their thinking by deliberately focusing attention on issues and problems that require solution in the real world. Questions can be improved by using a model for construction as models provide the scaffold for specific types of thinking. Question-asking by teachers, however, is an art as well as a science. The late Mortimer Adler used to opine that one good question could carry a seminar for an hour. So it is not the number of questions that matter, but the having of good questions from which a teacher wants to learn and that elevates and enhances the learning process for students.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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