Sunday, June 12, 2016

Questions Facilitate Learning


Exemplary learning tasks engage
curiosities and foster growth.

Learning tasks guided by open questions posed after extensive resource building do not have singular answers. Engaged learners are expected to reflect on the question and bring to bear a combination of their experiences, problem-solving and reasoning skills, and specific content knowledge, strategies, and tools. These learners must sort through the language of the open question to find the essence of the question from which to explore their available resources and build their responses.

Exemplary learning tasks or open questions do just that - allow learners to explore, experiment, and explain their decisions based on their newly acquired as well as long-term knowledge, skills, and abilities.

What learning tasks stimulated and nurtured
 your knowledge, skills, and abilities?