ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Introduction PART I. Building a Questioning Classroom Culture 1. Kids These Days: Creating Deeper Learning Experiences Framed Around Student Questions 2. Designing for Engagement: Strategies for Using Student Questions to Plan Academic Discussions 3. Teaching Like Socrates: Composing a Classroom Climate to Encourage Inquiry 4. Learning to Listen: Processes to Support Better Thinking Through Focused Attention 5. Constructing Trust: Foundational Practices to Build Empathy, Belonging, and a Culture of Thinking PART II. Curating Questions for Use in the Content Areas 6. Using Questions in Multiple Disciplines and Grade Levels 7. Science 8. Math 9. Social Studies, Government, and Humanities 10. Fine Arts 11. Career and Technical Education 12. Special Populations PART III. Applying Inquiry to Do Real Work in the Real World 13. Using Student Questions for Project Ideas at All Levels PART IV. Using Our Own Questions to Transform Our Practice 14. Using Teacher Questions to Guide Staff Meetings and Plan Professional Development APPENDIX: RESOURCES, RECOMMENDED TEXTS, AND RUBRICS REFERENCES INDEX
Socrates believed in the power of questions rather than lecturing his students. But how did we get so far away from his method of inquiry? Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, will show you how teachers can create an engaging atmosphere that encourages student questions and honors their experiences.
Shanna Peeples, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year, took the road less travelled on the way to her classroom. She worked as a disc jockey, medical assistant, and journalist before teaching, as she says, chose her. Shanna taught middle and high school English in low-income schools in Amarillo, Texas for 14 years. Because Amarillo is a resettlement area for refugees, students as diverse as the Karen people of Myanmar to the Bantu people of Somalia, make up classes in her former assignment at Palo Duro High School. Currently, Shanna is a doctoral candidate in Education Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She most recently served as the ELA curriculum specialist for her district where she designed professional development experiences and co-created curriculum with more than 200 secondary English Language Arts teachers. A former reporter for the Amarillo Globe-News, Shanna won awards for reporting on health issues, schools, and music criticism. Shanna is a board member of the Longview Foundation, a 2016 National Education Association Global Learning Fellow, and a member of the Global Teacher Prize Academy.