Questioning 

Educator creates a learning environment where questioning promotes curiosity, critical thinking, and inquiry.

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Educator Exemplars

a. 

Uses a variety of questioning strategies (e.g., asking intriguing questions, demonstrating how to ask complex questions, etc.) to engage learners, guide learning, foster critical thinking and encourage reflection.
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b. 

 Provides structured opportunities and strategies for learners to generate a variety of questions, classify, analyze and improve their questions to promote complex ideas.
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c. 

Uses strategies that encourage learners to consider questions deeply and participate in class conversations (e.g., small-group discussions, think-alouds, think-pair-share).
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d. 

 Uses wait time to allow learners to process questions and to encourage discussion.

Learner Exemplars

a. 

Develop questions that reflect curiosity, creativity and innovation. 
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b. 

Generate questions in order to design investigations and drive their learning. 
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c. 

Write, classify, analyze and improve questions (e.g., move from close-ended to more complex, open-ended questions). 
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d. 

Pose questions that go beyond factual knowledge and require inference, analysis or synthesis of multiple types of information. 
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e. 

Derive new and more complex questions to investigate as they pursue their questions.