Teaching and Learning with Testa

In the past two weeks of Inquiry-Based Learning graduate class, I have been working on developing good questions that are inquiry-based and looking at web-based tools that can help students with the inquiry.   If you have been following my journey, helping students develop good questioning techniques is something that interests me.  Understanding how to ask questions for different situations is a part of learning.  In addition, this helps students learn by doing and take risks by asking questions they don’t know the answer to but can investigate by research, experimentation, and data analysis.   Students are naturally curious, they want to learn about the world around them.  By helping them learn how to ask questions we can assist them with the understanding that we are looking to aim for higher-level thinking.  Students should understand Bloom’s taxonomy and aim for the applying and analyzing questions:  How, Why, Should, Would?.  Inqui...

  For the Instructional Strategies class, I recently participated in we had to create a mash-up of instructional strategies to use in our classrooms.  One thing I have struggled with is teaching how to take notes.  Particularly when watching videos and learning how to engage in them.  I started to think back to college and how one of my Education professors mentioned making questions out of headings and finding the answers to these questions.  I thought about doing this and utilizing google keep as I did it.  Raising Your Bar was developed.   My goal is to have students learn how to ask good questions and keep good notes as well.  One reviewer already mentioned the goal is to get students to ask questions they don't know the answers for, and to be okay with that unease that occurs.   Check it out and let me know your thoughts!