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Washington, D.C.

Conference on Teaching Excellence

June 28–30
National Harbor, Md.

Get up-to-date on recent revelations about best practices in the classroom, how to make them routine in every grade and subject, and how to scale them systemwide. 

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SELECT and INSTITUTIONAL PLUS MEMBERS and NONMEMBERS

Developing More Curious Minds

by John Barell

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Chapter 4. The Nature of Good Questions

It's good for your body to be curious.
—A New Hampshire 5th grader in Cathy Brophy's Class

We noted earlier that Isidor I. Rabi's mother asked him, when he returned home from school every day, “So, Izzy, did you ask a good question today?” That difference, asking good questions, changed the direction of his life toward becoming a nuclear physicist, and a Nobel Prize-winning one at that.

 

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