Instructional Minute
October 11, 2022
October 24, 2023
Using Questions to Help Students Elaborate on Content
Questioning Week 1: Components & Cold Calls
Element Components and Scoring
Cold Calls
Cold Calling is a technique that creates an expectation that all students are ready to answer every question. This promotes attention, engagement and participation.
Questioning Week 2: Effective Questioning
- Choosing and using the right kind, type and level of questions is one of the most important aspects of high impact instruction.
- Low level questioning leads to low engagement. The reverse is true about high level questions.
- Good questions engage students intellectually, hook students and gets them thinking
Questioning Week 3: Discussion Strategies
Socratic Seminar
A Socratic Seminar invites students to facilitate a discussion in order to work together toward a shared understanding of a text. The article below includes how to conduct a Socratic Seminar and even a lesson plan!
Fishbowl Discussion
Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes using a rubric.
K-8 Pacing at a Glance for this Week's Instruction
9-12 Pacing Documents
The document attached outlines 9-12 curricular resources, standards and pacing. This can also be found by clicking here on the LSD website.
Workshop Model Lesson Plan Form to Assist in Planning Lessons
A resource to use as you see fit.