To answer that question, let’s start with another question: What happens at a Christ-centered school?

• Students and staff ask good questions.
  
• Students and staff respond to good questions.

So, what makes a good question good? A good question:

• Grabs attention
  
• Requires upper-level thinking
  
• Allows a variety of acceptable answers
  
• Connects course content, life, and a biblical perspective
  
• Is Essential—universal, timeless, at the heart of learning
  
• Is Student/staff-friendly—short, with developmentally appropriate vocabulary

Want a memory tool for these 6 characteristics? Here it is: GRACES. A good question GRACES understanding.

What’s an example of a good question?: What’s wrong with the world?

Use these 6 characteristics (GRACES) to develop a good question. Ask your students a good question. Today.

*For a set of discussion questions you can use to further reflect on this blog entry, click here.