Creating Curious Classrooms: The Beauty of Questions

by Emma Chiappetta

When teachers inspire and cultivate curiosity they improve student engagement, increase intrinsic motivation, enhance learning, and empower students to become lifelong learners. This book uses both anecdotes and research to elucidate the potential that student-generated questions provide in the classroom. Readers will walk away with inspiration, as well as tools and strategies for creating a curiosity-driven classroom environment. Creating Curious Classrooms focuses on students’ what we can learn from them and what we can do with them to deepen learning. This book does not advocate that teachers overhaul their entire philosophy. Instead, it provides an array of strategies for emphasizing inquiry, ranging from small tweaks that don’t change the curriculum at all, to the restructuring of entire units. Every teacher will be able to take action based on what they read in Creating Curious Classrooms. Chiappetta provides a toolkit for inspiring wonder and curiosity in the classroom, offering concrete strategies, big and small, for getting students to ask more questions and improving the quality and "wonder factor" of such questions. Creating Curious Classrooms is a game changer for educators serving at all levels!

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Published September 21, 2022

Reviews

[Crystal Frommert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommended for teacher wanting to bring more student questioning and thinking into their classroom