Erik M Francis

International author, educator and presenter

Workshop Information:

This session will encourage participants to rethink how they understand and use inquiry and questioning to activate, advance, and assess student learning. 

They will learn strategies they can implement easily, simply, and swiftly when they return to their classrooms.

What does teaching and learning with an inquiring mind involve? 

How could you phrase and pose good questions that will activate, advance and assess student learning? 

Explore how to teach and learn through inquiry and by questioning with good questions. Examine how good questions engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss the depth and extent of their learning. Learn how to rephrase academic standards and learning expectations into good questions that will set the instructional focus, serve as assessment, personalize learning and promote student learning. 

Most importantly, discover how teaching and learning with an inquiring mind makes the experience actionable, measurable and visible.

Session Ouctomes:

• Understand how good questions engage and encourage students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and discuss their Depth of Knowledge (DOK).

• Rephrase academic standards and learning objectives into good questions that will set the instructional focus, serve as assessments, personalize learning and promote student inquiry.

• Pose good questions that will pique student curiosity and interest to learn and prompt deeper student comprehension and communication of learning.

Biography:

Erik M. Francis, M.Ed., M.S., is an international author, educator, presenter, and professional development provider with 30 years of experience in education. He is the author of Inquiring Minds Want to Learn: Posing Good Questions to Promote Student Inquiry (Solution Tree, 2024),  Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning (Solution Tree, 2022), and Now That’s a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning (ASCD, 2016). Erik is the owner of Maverik Education, providing professional learning and support on how to plan and provide teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven and student supportive. He is also consistently ranked as one of the World’s Top 30 Education Professionals by the international research organization Global Gurus and the Top 10 Global Thought Leaders in Education by the organization Thinkers360.