When teaching, teachers use questions to deepen learning and push student thinking. Through intentionally planned and scaffolded questions, students increase their levels of thinking and justify responses by regularly using evidence. Questions should occur at key points, be aligned to the learning goal, and provide opportunity for multiple students to respond.
Tools like Webb's Depth of Knowledge can be used to design instruction with progressing levels of complexity.
Students should have to answer progressing levels of questions over the course of a lesson and lesson sequence to demonstrate their mastery of content and skills.
The resources below provide a more in depth look at depths of knowledge across different content areas.
Other Resources:
Retrieval Practice: Sketchnotes and book summary, Excerpt from "Make it Stick"