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  eMINTS Competencies for Digital Age Teaching and Learning
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  • Community of Learners
    • 1. Classroom Collaboration
    • 2. Learning Environment
    • 3. Professional Practice
  • Authentic Learning
    • 4. Inquiry and Innovation
    • 5. Questioning
    • 6. Knowledge Construction
  • High-Quality Lesson Design
    • 7. Self-directed Learners
    • 8. Assessment
    • 9. Instructional Decisions
    • 10. Diverse Learners
    • 11. Authentic Lessons
  • Powered by Technology
    • 12. Global Collaboration
    • 13. Technology Integration
    • 14. Digital Citizenship
    • 15. Information Literacy
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Questioning 

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

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.
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Icon signifies indicators that incorporate technology
but are not included in Powered by Technology quadrant. 
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Revised April 2018
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  • Home
  • Community of Learners
    • 1. Classroom Collaboration
    • 2. Learning Environment
    • 3. Professional Practice
  • Authentic Learning
    • 4. Inquiry and Innovation
    • 5. Questioning
    • 6. Knowledge Construction
  • High-Quality Lesson Design
    • 7. Self-directed Learners
    • 8. Assessment
    • 9. Instructional Decisions
    • 10. Diverse Learners
    • 11. Authentic Lessons
  • Powered by Technology
    • 12. Global Collaboration
    • 13. Technology Integration
    • 14. Digital Citizenship
    • 15. Information Literacy