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These questions are more about the student than you, your classroom, or education.

What every student should know starts with themselves and moves outwards to your content area: self knowledge-> content knowledge.

As an educator, your job is lead students to understanding, but student self-awareness and self-knowledge should precede that. These questions hit at a range of topics, but all revolve around that idea of a learner's identity.

If it hasn't already come, the first day of school is probably imminent for you, and these kinds of questions could come in handy there as well. Get to know you type stuff. But they can also help set the tone in your classroom that introspection is a must, awareness and thinking are always-on, and self-knowledge is the ultimate goal of any system of learning.
Strategies for Implementation
These kinds of questions seem a bit...challenging, but if students can't even begin to answer them, well, we have a problem don't we? While some may not work at early primary/elementary levels, most are pretty flexible, and can be reworded as necessary by the teacher, or even the students themselves.

Based on some feedback we've gotten from our facebook community, here are a few tips to use this resource:
1. Jigsaw it
Break students into 4 groups, do the same to the questions, have students discuss each respective set as a group, then record their own answers after having a chance to discuss it a bit with others.
2. Choice
Have students choose to respond to the ones the want to respond to, and skip the ones they don't
3. Personalize
If you have some kind of idea which students might need to answer which questions, assign them accordingly.
4. Use them as Journal or Blog Prompts
Each question can act as a writing prompt. In fact, used weekly, you've got almost an entire school year's worth of prompts. Then have the students take the entries and do some kind of artistic demonstration of the answers and share across social media or within a digital portfolio. You could also use them as weekly blog post themes for students, where all students answer same question, and students visit one another's blogs and comment, etc.
5. Team-Building Games
Assign students questions to make sure all questions are answered by at least two students. Then have those students who answered matching questions meet, compare and contrast their responses, and share out.
6. Big Picture
Before anything else, ask students why questions like this are important.
7. Wing It
Just hand it to them and see how they respond, and take it from there. Drawing, twitter chats, debates, concept maps, Socratic discussions, etc.
26 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer
1. What do I need to know about you?

2. What do you need from me more than anything else?

3. What does success in the classroom mean to you?

4. What do you know about how people learn?

5. What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

6. How can technology be used for learning?

7. What does it mean to understand something?

8. When was the last time you've solved a problem?

9. How do you respond to expectations?

10. What is your proudest moment?

11. What do you want to learn about?

12. Are you a picky reader? What are your strengths as a reader?

13. What is your personal philosophy?

14. When do you write best?

15. What's worth understanding deeply?

16. What are your best habits as a thinker?

17. What's most important to you in life?

18. What is the relationship between learning and #17?

19. Where does your inner drive come from?

20. Who are your heroes or role models?

21. Why study (insert your content area here)?

22. What are you good at that nobody knows?

23. What do teachers sometimes misunderstand about you as a learner?

24. What does it mean to study?

25. How do you respond to complex texts or digital media?

26. If I get out of your way this year, what will you be able to do?

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These questions are more about the student than you, your classroom, or education. What every student should know starts with themselves and moves outwards to your content area: self knowledge-> content knowledge. As an educator, your job is lead students to understanding, but student self-awareness and self-knowledge should precede that.

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Web tools to support inquiry based learning

Web tools to support inquiry-based learning
Suitable for teachers and students. You will need to explore the inquiry learning phases and web tools listed below to work out which ones are best for your classroom environment.
If you have an absolute, favourite web tool that you use to support inquiry-based learning, I'd love to hear from you. Click here to share your web tool and I will add it to the list below.

The inquiry phases referred to below come from:

Information skills in the school New South Wales Department of Education and Communities

Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School by Carol C Kuhlthau, Leslie K Maniotes and Anne K Caspari.
View the webinar on my review of the Guided Inquiry framework.
The eight phase framework is based on Kuhlthau's studies of the information search process of students and provides a model that helps you guide students through the discovery process of learning from a variety of sources of information.

In 2012, Karen Bonanno was granted permission by the authors of Guided Inquiry Design:A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, Carol Kuhlthau, Leslie Maniotes and Ann Caspari, to develop a scope and sequence tying the five kinds of learning to the inquiry skills and general capabilities in the Australian Curriculum. More information about this scope and sequence can be found at F-10 Inquiry Skills Scope and Sequence & F-10 Core Skills and Tools.

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Additional resources Great mind mapping apps for iPad
Scoop.it! - Web tools to support inquiry based learning

The best of teachers' web tools by Med Karbach
Web-based version of Bloom's Taxonomy (30+ digital tools)

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When teachers know their students well, they can build strong connections that lead to better learning. Knowing students' interests, strengths, and weaknesses help teachers tailor learning experiences for their students. Formative assessment involves the teacher collecting information about what students know, don't know, and want to learn. This information takes many forms, including observations, exit tickets, discussions, games, and quizzes. These kinds of informal assessments can also help teachers get to know their students as learners and as people.

There is a very wide variety of digital formative assessment tools that can be used for free (often charging for extra features). I've written a little about 15 of them below. Most of these tools work with any web browser, so they are great for laptops, computer labs, iPads, Chromebooks, tablets, and smartphones.

One of the biggest advantages to using these kinds of tools is that they give every student in a class a voice. Students are spared the embarrassment of having to volunteer or be called on to answer a question out loud because everyone answers. While most of the tools require students to have some sort of device that can connect to the internet, there are a few that work when students have no technology at all. Others can be set up at a center or station for students to rotate through.

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Know Students Better: A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools - Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent

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There is a very wide variety of digital formative assessment tools that can be used for free. I've made simple graphics for 18 of them. Most of the tools work with any web browser, so they are great for laptops, computer labs, iPads, Chromebooks, tablets, and smartphones.

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There are so many resources out there for teachers, but it can be hard to pick and choose which websites are worth spending time on.

If you want to invest some time into learning how to really utilize a few great sites, these five are a perfect starting point.

Whether you are looking for hands-on inquiry, graphing software, or virtual manipulative apps, you are sure to find at least one you can try.

I know that after first being exposed to these few, I would have a hard time teaching as well without them.

NCTM offers a set of math resources on the Illuminations site. One of my favorite features here is the enormous library of virtual manipulatives. You can allow your students to drag around the virtual algebra tiles, discover triangle congruence theorems, and shade equivalent fractions (and that's all just pulled from the first page of manipulatives!) This set is perfect for classrooms with computers or ipads.

There are also some fantastic lessons. They're sorted by grade level. Check out some lessons for grades 6-8 or 9-12. There are lessons for younger kids too.

The brain teasers are also fun and would be great warm-ups. There are plenty available.

I use GeoGebra to make exploration easy in Geometry class. Students can sketch a figure into the software (parallel lines intersected by a transversal, centers of triangles, tangent lines, etc.). GeoGebra allows them to easily display angle measures, drag points around, and notice properties by observing what measures change and what measures stay the same. There are endless possibilities with this, especially if you are trying to incorporate a little discovery-based learning.

Download the free software for your classroom or check out the teacher pages that are packed with worksheets, samples, and ideas for lessons that use GeoGebra.

Desmos is the new way to do all your graphing and plotting. It's ideal for Algebra investigations. Use this site to allow students to transform functions and create fun or artistic graphs.

Try the graphing calculator or browse the teaching resources and activities that are available. You can also check out videos that show some of the many uses of the desmos calculator.

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5 Websites That Will Revolutionize Your Math Teaching

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Games for Change curates digital and non-digital games that engage contemporary social issues in a meaningful way. The list below contains over 150 games from the Games for Change Community including past G4C Awards nominees and winners. Some games are free to play and others have fees that can be paid on external sites.

Featured Games

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3rd World Farmer

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3rd World Farmer: A simulation to make you think.

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A free online game about rural poverty in developing nations. The official 3rd World Farmer website.

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NASA Eclipse Web Site - Science NetLinks

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Lemonade stand Simulation

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Lemonade Stand Game Instructions

Make as much money as you can selling lemonade. Buy cups, lemons, sugar and ice, and mix your own recipe to satisfy your customers!

Your goal is to make as much money as you can in 7, 14, or 30 days by selling lemonade at your lemonade stand. Buy cups, lemons, sugar, and ice cubes, then set your recipe based on the weather and conditions. Start with the basic recipe, but try to vary the recipe and see if you can do better. Lastly, set your price and sell your lemonade at the stand. Try changing up the price based on the weather conditions as well. At the end of the game, you'll see how much money you made. Write it down and play again to try and beat your score!

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Lemonade Stand Game Instructions

Make as much money as you can selling lemonade. Buy cups, lemons, sugar and ice, and mix your own recipe to satisfy your customers!

Your goal is to make as much money as you can in 7, 14, or 30 days by selling lemonade at your lemonade stand. Buy cups, lemons, sugar, and ice cubes, then set your recipe based on the weather and conditions. Start with the basic recipe, but try to vary the recipe and see if you can do better. Lastly, set your price and sell your lemonade at the stand. Try changing up the price based on the weather conditions as well. At the end of the game, you'll see how much money you made. Write it down and play again to try and beat your score!

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Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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