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Students respond to and/or use higher order questions in classroom discourse.

Teaching Strategies that Enhance Higher-Order ThinkingTeaching Strategies that Enhance Higher-Order Thinking

Ideas to Help Students Develop Higher-Order QuestionsAs a middle grades teacher, there are certain questions from your students that you see coming: Why are we doing this? Is this for a grade? When is this due? Can we work with a partner? Is it lunch yet? And then there are the other questions. These questions poke their smiling faces around corners, surprise you, and make you happy that you're a middle level educator. One day as a sixth grade social studies teacher, I had such a joyous occasion. I had about six students in my classroom...

What Is Depth of Knowledge? - ASCD InserviceBy Erik Francis Depth of knowledge. It’s a concept we in education have heard a lot about since our states transitioned to college and career ready standards, be it the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, or whatever each individual state has decided to call their academic standards that promote college and …

Bloom’s Taxonomy: A Practical Approach for Deeper Learning“Deep learning is the central principle of Curriculum for Excellence. It involves knowledge and understanding and the skills to apply knowledge in useful ways.” High Order Skills Excellence Group F…

Stirring Students to Ask Tougher QuestionsAccording to middle school teacher, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, teaching Costa's Levels of Questioning can result in students creating their own assessments.

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