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Engaging Students through Effective Questions

A teacher at St. Elizabeth Seton School in Calgary uses ‘paper tweets’ to help her students reflect on their learning.

Key Points

  • Students make connections to and deepen their understanding of prior learning as they engage in self-reflection.
  • Meaningful questions guide self-reflection.
  • Both teachers and students benefit from this process.

Discussion Question

  • How might we collaborate to design high quality questions that would support this type of student reflection and engagement?