Juliana Saxton
Juliana Saxton has extensive experience working with students from elementary schools to university. Professor Emeritus (Applied Theatre) at the University of Victoria, Juliana is co-author of Teaching Drama: A Mind of Many Wonders and Into the Story: Language in Action. Asking Better Questions is based on the belief that inquiry-based teaching is one of the most effective ways to encourage and develop curious, energetic, and motivated learners.
Books (1)
Synopsis:
Teaching and learning for a changing world
How do we help students makes sense of our increasingly complex digital world? This third edition of this classic text shows teachers how to empower students with the skills they need to ask critical and reflective questions about the overwhelming amount of information around them.
Asking Better Questions offers comprehensive tools and strategies to promote critical thinking and discussion in the classroom and encourage engaged and empathetic listening. Stimulating activities throughout the book promote lifelong inquiry skills that will help teachers and students grow in the classroom and explore broader issues in the community beyond. Challenge your students to assume a deeper ownership of their learning, ask questions that are important to them, and care about the answers.
On Twitter: #ABQ3
Educator Information
For students 5 - 14.
Additional Information
160 Pages