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Inquiry Mindset: Questions Edition: Cultivating Curiosity and Creating Question Competence
My students are too young to ask big questions.
My students just aren’t curious.
My students only ask closed questions.
Igniting and embracing curiosity is essential to inquiry-based learning, and that begins with questions. But if your students’ off-topic, too basic, or simply non-existent questions have left you discouraged, you know that getting to the right questions isn’t always easy. Asking questions that have the power to create authentic inquiry experiences and effectively drive learning takes practice. That's where Inquiry Questions Edition comes in.
In this book, Trevor MacKenzie offers tools and teacher insights that demonstrate the power and potential of student-generated inquiries. The Question Routines he outlines serve as a framework that you and your students can use to craft, organize, and justify questions. Effective across grade levels and subject areas, the strategies MacKenzie provides will empower you to bring fresh excitement and engagement to the learning experience.
As you integrate these Question Routines into your teaching practice, you will discover . . .
Curiosity can be leveraged to create personalized and authentic learning opportunities.Questioning can increase other competencies, including collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and reflection.As the teacher, you don’t have to ask or answer all the questions.Dive in, and let curiosity and questions, such as
What if . . . ? How could we . . . ? I wonder what would happen if . . . .
inspire and drive inquiry for you and your students.
“Trevor gives us the tools to help students generate and sort their questions in ways that thread the needle between authentic curiosity and curricular goals. Rooted in stories and examples of real classrooms, the collection of inquiry routines in this book will empower students to answer the most important questions in the classroom—the questions they, themselves, have asked.” —Peter Liljedahl, author, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
“In an increasingly complex, demanding, and uncertain global climate, the skill of asking thoughtful, critical, probing questions is more important than ever. . . . Trevor’s timely contribution will be a welcome addition to any teacher’s professional library!” —Kath Murdoch, author, The Power of Inquiry
“I have no doubt that you will return to this offering time and time again to help you refine, rethink, and revisit the wonderings your learners bring to the table.” —Jessica Vance, author, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry
My students just aren’t curious.
My students only ask closed questions.
Igniting and embracing curiosity is essential to inquiry-based learning, and that begins with questions. But if your students’ off-topic, too basic, or simply non-existent questions have left you discouraged, you know that getting to the right questions isn’t always easy. Asking questions that have the power to create authentic inquiry experiences and effectively drive learning takes practice. That's where Inquiry Questions Edition comes in.
In this book, Trevor MacKenzie offers tools and teacher insights that demonstrate the power and potential of student-generated inquiries. The Question Routines he outlines serve as a framework that you and your students can use to craft, organize, and justify questions. Effective across grade levels and subject areas, the strategies MacKenzie provides will empower you to bring fresh excitement and engagement to the learning experience.
As you integrate these Question Routines into your teaching practice, you will discover . . .
Curiosity can be leveraged to create personalized and authentic learning opportunities.Questioning can increase other competencies, including collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and reflection.As the teacher, you don’t have to ask or answer all the questions.Dive in, and let curiosity and questions, such as
What if . . . ? How could we . . . ? I wonder what would happen if . . . .
inspire and drive inquiry for you and your students.
“Trevor gives us the tools to help students generate and sort their questions in ways that thread the needle between authentic curiosity and curricular goals. Rooted in stories and examples of real classrooms, the collection of inquiry routines in this book will empower students to answer the most important questions in the classroom—the questions they, themselves, have asked.” —Peter Liljedahl, author, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
“In an increasingly complex, demanding, and uncertain global climate, the skill of asking thoughtful, critical, probing questions is more important than ever. . . . Trevor’s timely contribution will be a welcome addition to any teacher’s professional library!” —Kath Murdoch, author, The Power of Inquiry
“I have no doubt that you will return to this offering time and time again to help you refine, rethink, and revisit the wonderings your learners bring to the table.” —Jessica Vance, author, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry
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404 pages, Paperback
Published July 3, 2024
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January 21, 2025
Another excellent book. One to refer to over and over again as you try different questioning strategies with students.
Book Description:
My students are too young to ask big questions.
My students just aren’t curious.
My students only ask closed questions.
Igniting and embracing curiosity is essential to inquiry-based learning, and that begins with questions. But if your students’ off-topic, too basic, or simply non-existent questions have left you discouraged, you know that getting to the right questions isn’t always easy. Asking questions that have the power to create authentic inquiry experiences and effectively drive learning takes practice. That's where Inquiry Mindset: Questions Edition comes in.
In this book, Trevor MacKenzie offers tools and teacher insights that demonstrate the power and potential of student-generated inquiries. The Question Routines he outlines serve as a framework that you and your students can use to craft, organize, and justify questions. Effective across grade levels and subject areas, the strategies MacKenzie provides will empower you to bring fresh excitement and engagement to the learning experience.
As you integrate these Question Routines into your teaching practice, you will discover . . .
Curiosity can be leveraged to create personalized and authentic learning opportunities.
Questioning can increase other competencies, including collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and reflection.
As the teacher, you don’t have to ask or answer all the questions.
Dive in, and let curiosity and questions, such as
What if . . . ? How could we . . . ? I wonder what would happen if . . . .
inspire and drive inquiry for you and your students.
“Trevor gives us the tools to help students generate and sort their questions in ways that thread the needle between authentic curiosity and curricular goals. Rooted in stories and examples of real classrooms, the collection of inquiry routines in this book will empower students to answer the most important questions in the classroom—the questions they, themselves, have asked.” —Peter Liljedahl, author, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
“In an increasingly complex, demanding, and uncertain global climate, the skill of asking thoughtful, critical, probing questions is more important than ever. . . . Trevor’s timely contribution will be a welcome addition to any teacher’s professional library!” —Kath Murdoch, author, The Power of Inquiry
“I have no doubt that you will return to this offering time and time again to help you refine, rethink, and revisit the wonderings your learners bring to the table.” —Jessica Vance, author, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry
Book Description:
My students are too young to ask big questions.
My students just aren’t curious.
My students only ask closed questions.
Igniting and embracing curiosity is essential to inquiry-based learning, and that begins with questions. But if your students’ off-topic, too basic, or simply non-existent questions have left you discouraged, you know that getting to the right questions isn’t always easy. Asking questions that have the power to create authentic inquiry experiences and effectively drive learning takes practice. That's where Inquiry Mindset: Questions Edition comes in.
In this book, Trevor MacKenzie offers tools and teacher insights that demonstrate the power and potential of student-generated inquiries. The Question Routines he outlines serve as a framework that you and your students can use to craft, organize, and justify questions. Effective across grade levels and subject areas, the strategies MacKenzie provides will empower you to bring fresh excitement and engagement to the learning experience.
As you integrate these Question Routines into your teaching practice, you will discover . . .
Curiosity can be leveraged to create personalized and authentic learning opportunities.
Questioning can increase other competencies, including collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and reflection.
As the teacher, you don’t have to ask or answer all the questions.
Dive in, and let curiosity and questions, such as
What if . . . ? How could we . . . ? I wonder what would happen if . . . .
inspire and drive inquiry for you and your students.
“Trevor gives us the tools to help students generate and sort their questions in ways that thread the needle between authentic curiosity and curricular goals. Rooted in stories and examples of real classrooms, the collection of inquiry routines in this book will empower students to answer the most important questions in the classroom—the questions they, themselves, have asked.” —Peter Liljedahl, author, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
“In an increasingly complex, demanding, and uncertain global climate, the skill of asking thoughtful, critical, probing questions is more important than ever. . . . Trevor’s timely contribution will be a welcome addition to any teacher’s professional library!” —Kath Murdoch, author, The Power of Inquiry
“I have no doubt that you will return to this offering time and time again to help you refine, rethink, and revisit the wonderings your learners bring to the table.” —Jessica Vance, author, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry
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November 2, 2026I'm not rating this one because I read it for work and didn't choose it myself. I think the book itself was fine. It was a relatively easy read, and I appreciated all the application examples, photographs, and teacher interviews. I think my problem with it is not about the book at all, but that we are trying to use it to plan professional development trainings for our staff that we're not really in a good place to implement. The book really talks about how to use student-driven questioning to guide inquiry investigations and projects. We're planning to use it to inspire teachers to have students be more curious about what they're learning, but we are not giving teachers the time or space to give students inquiry projects to work on. So we're trying to take these inquiry questioning strategies and plug them into curriculum that is kind of strictly structured and very teacher-directed... So I just feel kind of blah entirely because of our own situation, not because of the book at all. If someone who taught at a school where inquiry was more embraced, then I would recommend the book as a good read with lots of great questioning routines to try.
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