Education Professional Development
Q Tasks
How to empower students to ask questions and care about the answers
- Publisher
- Pembroke Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2014
- Category
- Professional Development
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551383019
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $53.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781551389028
- Publish Date
- Sep 2014
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
Questions and questioning are key skills in successful learning. The original Q Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to give students the tools they need to develop their own questions and build critical thinking and inquiry skills. This new, totally revised edition continues to nurture and advance these crucial skills, and also offers Q-task extensions that introduce digital components that facilitate collaboration and are designed to appeal to tech-savvy students.
More than 100 practical, flexible exercises in this remarkable book provide a smorgasbord of choices for teachers to use to help students formulate good questions in an information-rich environment. They put the students at the centre of their own learning as they build the library and research skills that are essential to our information age. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students go beyond memorization and rote learning of facts to focus on personal understanding, and true ownership of the learning experience.
About the authors
Carol Koechlin is an award-winning author and educator who has dedicated her career to helping students become better readers, writers, and researchers. A popular conference presenter and staff development instructor, Carol's experience with school library programs has led to a continuous quest to make information literacy more meaningful to students. Her work with Sandi Zwaan has been recognized internationally, and her books have been translated into German, French, Italian, and Chinese. Carol lives in Toronto.
Sandi Zwaan is an award-winning author and educator who has dedicated her career to helping students become better readers, writers, and researchers. A popular conference presenter and staff development instructor, Sandi’s experience with school library programs has led to her quest to make information literacy more meaningful to students. Her work with Carol Koechlin has been recognized internationally, and her books have been translated into German, French, Italian, and Chinese. Sandi lives in Brighton, Ontario.
