Cultivating curiosity in K-12 classrooms : how to promote and sustain deep learning

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Curiosity comes from within. We just have to know how to unleash it. We learn by engaging and exploring, asking questions and testing out answers. Yet our classrooms are not always places where such curiosity is encouraged and supported. This book describes how teachers can create a structured, student-centered environment that allows for openness and surprise, where inquiry guides authentic learning. The author shows how to foster student curiosity through exploration, novelty, and play; questioning and critical thinking; and experimenting and problem solving. With techniques to try, scaffolding advice, and relevant research from neuroscience and psychology, this book will help teachers harness the powerful drive in all learners, the drive to know, understand, and experience the world in a meaningful way.