Great! You have completed the ELLI quiz and looked at your personal profile which recorded your current learning power strengths and weaknesses according to the ‘Seven Dimensions of Learning’. The important thing to remember is that your profile is dynamic and you can improve the way you learn in any of the seven dimensions.
This short resource helps you to become more aware and improve your tendency to be curious; to ask questions… Asking questions is an essential strand of your Critical Curiosity; it drives your learning.
Step 1: Watch yourself …questioning
How well do you know yourself as a questioner?
- Are you a curious about lots of things?
- Are you reluctant to ask questions?
- Do you think you ask good questions?
- Do you like finding out yet more about things?
- Do you often wonder ‘why’ or ‘how come’ or ‘what if’?
Watch yourself over the next week or so in places such as:
- in different lessons in school
- at home with your family
- when you are with your friends
- when you are attending after- school activities
- when you are playing in a team
… and become more aware of yourself as a questioner.
Select the resource below that matches your elli result for Critical Curiosity.
Use the resource to help you note down when and how you use your questioning behaviours and remind yourself about features of questioning that you could watch out for.
FORMAT AND STATEMENTS OF QUESTIONING BEHAVIOURS NEED SORTING IN QUIZZES
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Did you know…
An astonishing 40,000 questions are googled ever second. 6,000 have never been asked before.
Step 2: What does this tell you?
What do your observations tell you about your questioning behaviours?
Take a look at the information you recorded about your questioning. This should give you a sense of the sort of questioning behaviours you use, where/ when you use them and how much you use them.
Now ask yourself some searching questions about what you noticed:
- What sort of circumstances seem to stimulate your curiosity?
- What sort of circumstances seem to stifle your questioning?
- What seems to help you carry on questioning?
- Where do you feel most comfortable asking questions
- Do most of your questions lead to one word answers?
- Do most of your questions open possibilities for you?
- What particular circumstances make questioning easy or more difficult?
- Are there any circumstances where you feel afraid of asking questions?
WE CAN’T SORT THIS STEP PROPERLY UNTIL WE HAVE RESOLVED THE QUIZ IN STEP 1
Select the resource below that matches your elli result for Critical Curiosity.
Use the resource to muse on what you have discovered about yourself as a questioner and estimate where you sit on each of the scales.
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Did you know…
Questioning is a vital skill for navigating life
Being good at questioning isn’t something that switches on on good days and off on bad days it’s like all learning behaviours … it is sensitive to the culture you are in. Your questioning builds and strengthens when it’s nurtured and supported.
Step 3: Why not try…
What could you do to strengthen your questioning?
The resources below offer four suggestions to strengthen your questioning in:
- Becoming more curious
- Asking better questions
- Asking questions of other people
- Keeping your self-talk positive
THESE SHOULD NOT BE LIVE. NEED TO PUT UNDER BUTTONS. THESE SUGGESTIONS NEED SORTING AND ADDING TO FOR 3 LEVELS
Select the resource below that matches your elli result for Critical Curiosity.
Use each, or all, of the suggestions several times and make a mental note of their effect.
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Did you know…
The Top ‘How To’ Searches recently included: How to watch Fury vs. Wilder? How to floss dance? How to watch the Champions League final? How to get the old Snapchat back? How to delete Instagram?
What would yours be?
Step 4: How did that feel?
How did your experiments with questioning go? What’s changed?
Reflect on what you have tried and ask yourself:
- What did I learn from using the suggestions for:
- Becoming more curious
- Asking better questions
- Asking questions of other people
- Keeping your self-talk positive
- What was positive about it?
- Anything go wrong?
- Anything I’d like to change?
- Where might I use these ideas again?
Select the resource below that matches your elli result for Critical Curiosity. Take a look at the scale xxxxxxx and ask yourself:
- Where have I improved?
- Which do I do more of?
- Where else do I need to improve?
NOT QUITE SURE WHAT IS NEEDED HERE. MAYBE A SCALE WITH 2 ENDS AS DISCUSSED. IF WE HAD ONE LIKE IT AT SAY STEP 2 WE COULD REPEAT HERE AND THEY COULD ESTIMATE IF THEIR EXPERIMENTS WITH QUESTIONING HAD MADE ANY DIFFERENCE. BUT IF THEY HAVEN’T WE ARE IN DANGER OF LOOSING THEM. MAYBE WE DON’T NEED ANY RESOURCES HERE.
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Did you know…
A study discovered four year old girls are the most curious. They ask an incredible 390 questions per day – averaging a question every 1 minute 56 seconds of their waking day.
Step 5: Take yourself forward
Set yourself some goals
Research on motivation and achieving goals shows that our brain acts on goals only when what to do is clear.So, goals like ‘Eat healthily’ or ‘Exercise more often‘ or ‘Pass the exam‘ are too nebulous. They beg the question ‘how’ or ‘what do I do?’ Here’s a successful way of setting a goal where you specify the situation and what you will do about it.
If (or when) [___situation__], then I will do [___behaviour__]
‘Ifs’ are the situations you want to remind yourself about. They are the triggers that stimulate the ‘Thens’
‘Thens’ are what you will do about something, the action you will take whenever the ‘If’ happens.
The clever bit is that this builds your positive self-talk at the same time. You do what you are telling yourself to do.
Select the resource below that matches your elli result for Critical Curiosity. Create 3 If/When – Then statements to move your Questioning habits on.
Each resource offers some If-then examples to get you started on improving your questioning behaviours.
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Notes only.
If you’re not aware of the fluid nature of your learning habits they just become routine ways in which you think and act when faced with life’s experiences and challenges…they become second nature. Some of those routinised habits make you productive and effective; other routinised habits cause you to learn in constrained and limited ways. But you can amend and change your learning habits and get better at learning. If, for example you have a well formed habit of being critically curios, you will tend to use it in all your experiences.
According to your elli profile, where do you need to improve? Where are your lower scores? Where might be a good place to start?
Step1
- When and where I was:
- Curious about what was happening around me,
- Didn’t accept or agree with what I was being told or finding out
- Asking questions in my head
- Trying to find better or deeper answers to why something wass happening
- OR How can this be?
- OR What causes this to happen?
- OR When have things happened like this before?
- I comfortable with uncertainty and things being unclear.
- Enjoying different points of view and contrary evidence.
- I play with ideas and possibilities.
- Posing questions that followed a rational path of argument.
- Feeling OK about asking other people questions
- Showing a genuine interest in other people.
- Challenging others’ points of view
- Listening to other people’s opinions
Brian I need this list in the style of a Learning log page from the Activity bank with a rating scale under each ‘cloud ‘showing Frequently to Hardly ever. As a download for this section
Step 2
Behaviours you might notice about yourself might include:
- You work things out for yourself…………………..You tend to leave working things out to other people
- You seek out information to understand something……………….
- You tend not to accept things at face value……………..You tend to accept the first answer you find
- You drill down into information looking for further clues…………….You’re happy to accept apparent truths
- You talk about your questions, doubts and uncertainties with others…………..You keep your questions to yourself
- You don’t worry when you don’t know something……………………………….You worry when you don’t know something
- You ask lots of useful questions………………..You tend to think you’ll look stupid if you ask questions
- You’re aware of how your questioning affects other people………………You’re not bothered by how your questions
THIS NOW BECOMES TH DOWNLOAD FOR BOX 2…
Step4 list same as 1
- Curious about what was happening around me,
- Not accepting or agreeing with what I was being told or finding out
- Asking questions in my head
- Trying to find better or deeper answers to why something was happening
- OR How can this be?
- OR What causes this to happen?
- OR When have things happened like this before?
- Being comfortable with uncertainty and things being unclear.
- Enjoying different points of view and contrary evidence.
- Playing with ideas and possibilities.
- Posing questions that follow a rational path of argument.
- Feeling OK about asking other people questions
- Showing a genuine interest in other people.
- Challenging others’ points of view
- Listening to other people’s opinions
Brian another download here of this with the Frequently to Hardly Ever scale.
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