Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers

Understanding is a process. The key to this process is the question. This timely book will help teachers to create a classroom environment where questions are valued and encouraged. The step-by-step approach in this book offers more than eighty proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. These flexible tasks are designed to nurture curiosity, cultivate wonder and stimulate the imagination. The book provides innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience. Any teacher will learn to empower an inquiring spirit that students will take through their school years and beyond.