4D Learning: QUESTION

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

― Albert Einstein

The questions we use have been developed over time as effective and useful for scaffolding thinking and learning. With the right questions being asked at the right time you are able to understand a students thinking, gain more information, challenge current thinking, connect ideas with new learning or other peoples ideas, scaffold thinking to a higher level, but most importantly invite thinking.

Questioning is a large part of our facilitation. We value it so much in our learning environment we have a teacher whose role is to facilitate and question the students engaged in discovery and creations.

To understand how this works please see post labelled Facilitator

Questions provide a framework within our learning environment that create a common language for learning and supports our ability to use language to talk about our learning but also learning how to learn. Questions are open with no preconceived idea of what the answer will be only the level of thinking that is expected and required for learning to occur. Learning can take many directions, some of which are at a much higher level than would otherwise be expected and many learning experiences go in a lateral direction that would otherwise be restricted when working to a plan or my own expectations.

As part of our planning framework we embrace Blooms Thinking skills of different levels of thinking. This ensures we are extending the level of thinking at all times for every learner.