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PERSPECTIVES
7 The Species
That Asks
Marge Scherer
How to ask better
questions and find
better answers.
RESEARCH SAYS
76 Help Students Train
Their Inner Voice
Bryan Goodwin
with Heather Hein
It’s the voice in our heads
that assesses where we
are with our learning.
THE TECHY TEACHER
78 More Than a
Google Search
Catlin Tucker
In this debut column,
Catlin Tucker discusses
how to reboot student
research.
SHOW & TELL:
A VIDEO COLUMN
82 Fostering Critical
Thinking About
Texts
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
This protocol guides
students to read closely.
Watch the video.
PRINCIPAL CONNECTION
86 Choose Your
Yardstick
Thomas R. Hoerr
September is the time
to determine how your
school will pursue its
values.
ONE TO GROW ON
88 Teaching That
Spurs Thinking
Carol Ann Tomlinson
How do we make learning
more alive for students?
8 Double Take
TELL ME ABOUT
90 Questions That
Encourage Students
to Think
91 Index to Advertisers
94 ASCD Community
in Action
EL TAKEAWAYS
96 Quotable Quotes
About Questioning
Columns Departments
Cover ©Linzie Hunter
66 Five Strategies for
Questioning with Intention
Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick
The art of designing and posing
questions for each learning goal.
70 Making Questions Flow
Dan Rothstein, Luz Santana,
and Andrew P. Minigan
A technique for getting students to open
the floodgates of their imaginations.
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