Students never cease to amaze me and what is more amazing is when we give our students the opportunity to be independent, empowering them and allowing them to take charge of their learning. Knowing they have a strong teacher behind them, supporting them, providing them with the resources, strategies, and skills they need to be successful....Notice I said BEHIND them, we should allow...

As teachers questions are crucial to a student's learning....right? But why are we asking a majority of the questions? Shouldn't we be encouraging our students to be curious, to challenge one another, and to ask questions? It is important that we, the educators develop questions in a way that we are not giving away the answers, we should be developing questions that lead our...