Teachers spend 30-50% of their time asking questions

Guiding questions 

• • Clearly state what students need to know, do, and understand

  • Necessary for formative assessment and differentiation

  • Used by students to frequently review and clarify their learning

Effective Questions:  The right questions for the kind of learning students are to experience

• • Type of Question:  Open-ended or Closed

  • Kind of Question:  Opinion or Right/Wrong

  • Level of Question:  Knowledge, Skill, Big Idea

Thinking Prompts:  Device or element presented to students to promote conversations

• • Often used at the beginning of a lesson or unit to engage students and activate prior knowledge

  • Can be used in open or closed learning

Learning Maps

Wait time

Anticipatory Sets

Ask questions before learning experience to establish a "mental set", rather than just after

Class discussions

Cooperative Learning