Increase Inquiry in Your Classroom
Questioning Strategies for Students and Teachers
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What Questions Are You Asking?
Seed Questions (Pick one for activity below)
- Describe the Thinking Child.
- What kinds of thinking do you value and want to promote in your classroom?
- How do you use questioning in your classroom to support learning objectives?
- When you as questions in your classroom, how do your students typically respond?
- Seed Questions
Stop every 10-15 minutes to ask a pre-planned question. - 4 Levels of Questions
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/90/72/12/90721206011710481c11de6c28fdd1e8.jpg - Bloom's and Questioning
https://www.smore.com/hd80r-questioning-stems - Thick and Thin Questions
http://blogs.rockingham.k12.va.us/lpike/files/2012/08/thickthin.jpg - Stop Asking Questions You Know the Answer To http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2011/12/stop-asking-questions-if-you-know.html?spref=tw
How Can We Teach Kids To Question?
Something to Think About
A More Beautiful Question
Teachers design a “Question Focus.”
Students produce questions.
Students improve their questions.
At a certain point, students begin to work on the questions they’ve written down; they open the closed questions, and close the open ones. For example, an open question that began as Why is torture effective? might be changed to a closed one: Is torture effective? In doing this, students learn that a question can be narrowed down in some cases, expanded in others—and they begin to see that “the way you ask a question yields different results and can lead you in different directions,” Rothstein explains.