Ken Bain (What the Best College Teachers Do) and James Zimmerman ask us what it takes to overcome student misconceptions through deep learning. In their article Understanding Great Teaching they claim that students "are most likely to learn deeply when they are trying to solve problems or answer questions that they have come to regard as important, intriguing, or beautiful."
But what makes a question important, intriguing, or beautiful to a student? Those kind of questions “both capture the students’ imagination and challenge some of their most cherished paradigms. The best teachers found questions that were already on the minds of their students and helped them move to new inquiries that those students had never imagined.”
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