The Driving Question Board
Learn how the “DQB” shifts the focus of learning from an individual experience to a collective one in which our collective experiences and ideas are useful for moving our thinking forward.
What is the Driving Question Board (DQB)?
• An essential tool used throughout the OpenSciEd units as a way to generate, keep track of, and revisit student questions that drive the investigation of the anchoring phenomenon and related phenomena.
What is the Driving Question Board (DQB)?
• A visual representation of the class’s shared mission of learning in the unit and is a central support for the OpenSciEd Instructional Model.
- A DQB shifts the focus of learning from an individual experience to a collective one in which our collective experiences and ideas are useful for moving our thinking forward.
- Every student contributes a question and all of those varied questions are useful in helping the class move forward. The teacher can build a culture of appreciating and valuing diverse ideas and thinking.
- The DQB is a visual representation of the class’s shared mission of learning in the unit, which increases the ownership and agency students have of their learning.
Read “The Driving Question Board: Putting Students at the Helm of Science Learning” whitepaper:
Additional Information
For more information about the Driving Question Board and how to implement it into your classroom, you can gain further insight at the Instructional Model page located here:
