Questioning
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"This strategy relies on a series of questions to guide students' thinking toward high levels of rigor and complexity. The effectiveness of questioning depends on the rigor of questions used, making teacher pre-planning and assessment of questions critical. When questions are of high rigor and directly related to learning materials and desired academic outcomes, student thinking is challenged and new understanding is more likely to be achieved." Bold School, Kieschnick, p. 78
Quick Tips:
Remember: what gets scripted gets asked. The goal of your quesitons is not to get kids to answer, it's to get kids to think.
Make sure your questions address multiple levels of cognition.
Put scripted questions into technologies beforehand.
Adjust to include all students- have an inner circle turn to face the outer circle to have cnversations based on scripted questions; rotate pairs after each round.
Teachers ask between 300-400 questions everyday and even as many of 120 per hour. (Vogler, 2008) Make it meaningful!
Instructional Technology Tools:
Flip
Google Classroom Q&A
Google Docs & Google Slides
Additional Resources:
Video
Importance of Questioning (Macdonald, 2015)
Scaffolding Discussion Skills with Socratic Circles (Edutopia, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6iaGnf0fE (YouTube, 2017)
Materials
Making Student Thinking Visible - Questioning that creates dynamic discussions and deeper learning
DOK Questioning Levels (Webb, 2005)
DOK Question Stems (Webb, n.d.)
Article
5 Questions to Tackle When Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques (Konen, 2017)
Using the Socratic Method in Your Classroom (Miller, 2021)
How to Engage More Students in Classroom Discussions (Toro, 2021)
Questioning Techniques (Questioning Techniques: Asking Questions Effectively, n.d.)