Quality Questioning: What you Need to Know
- 1. Quality Questioning: What you need to know A Summer Institute 2013 Session presented by Katie Gray
- 3. Quality Questioning: What you need to know A Summer Institute 2013 Session presented by Katie Gray Wait…. What?
- 5. Today’s Learning Target: → I can use at least 3 strategies to create a culture for thinking in my classroom.
- 6. A Culture for Thinking
- 7. Put some Ink in your Think! 1. Individual reflection sheet 2. Divide into groups 3. SILENTLY share ideas 4. Rotate 5. Review & Categorize 6. Share out
- 8. A Culture for Thinking
- 9. What puts the “quality” in questions? Pre-planned!! Fewer, deeper questions Engage students at higher levels of thinking
- 11. Evaluate, Check, Coordinate, Detect, Monitor, Test, Critique, Judge, Generate, Plan, Produce, Hypothesize, Design, Construct Understand, Interpret, Exemplify, Classify, Summarize, Infer, Compare, Explain, Apply, Execute, Implement, Analyze, Differentiate, Organize, Attribute Remember, Recognize, Identify, Retrieve
- 12. Using the Language of Thinking Thinking word wall Question stems posted o “What if…” o “I wonder…” o “Can you imagine?”
- 13. How do we nurture student thinking? 11 questions in 25 seconds?
- 14. Attend to the question Bring into working memory & decode Search for connection in long-term memory m a t c h Think through question and formulate answer Respond aloud 11 questions in 25 seconds?
- 16. Internal- prefer to have their responses formulated perfectly before saying them aloud o Require quiet time for their processing External- talk through their answers orally o Correct their answers as they’re saying them aloud
- 22. 10 min? 15 min?
- 23. Making Students “Response-able” Hold them accountable for the learning o White boards o Hold-ups o Signals o Ink Think o Turn & talk o Clickers Teach them the skills of discussion
- 25. Give Students Tools To Have A Productive Discussion MODEL! MODEL! MODEL! Provide thinking stems or or or or sentence starters Start small & build on it Pairs Small Groups Whole Group
- 26. Student bOUnCE Card Bounce an idea off of what your classmates have said Sum up what was just said in a shorter version Ask questions to better understand what your classmates mean
- 27. Let’s Practice! Vote with Your Feet + Productive Discussion Talent is genetic.
- 28. What are NORMS, exactly? The foundation for a classroom culture Set the tone for whole year Cultivate teamwork and sense of family NORMS
- 29. Norms for Thinking Purposes of Questioning Wait Times Participation
- 30. Norms of a Thinking Classroom Purposes of Questioning Use teacher questions to prompt your thinking, not to guess the teacher’s answer. Use mistakes as opportunities to learn: this is a risk-free classroom. Use follow-up questions to think about and self- assess your first response and to modify or extend your thinking. Be open to wonder and ask, not just to know and answer.
- 31. Norms of a Thinking Classroom Wait Times Use the pause following the asking of a question to think and to formulate your response. Use the pause after your answer to reflect and add to or change it. Use the pause following a classmate’s answer to compare it with your own. Be ready to agree or disagree and to add your ideas.
- 32. Norms of a Thinking Classroom Participation Listen with respect to other points of view in order to fully understand and learn. Share what you think so others can learn from you. Monitor your talk so others can contribute.
- 35. A Culture for Thinking
- 36. Choose one of these pictures and compare it to a culture of thinking using this sentence starter: A thinking culture is like a _____ because _________.
- 37. Today’s Learning Target: → I can use at least 3 strategies to create a culture for thinking in my classroom. : I ‘m overloaded; let’s get together! : I’m ready to use at least 1 of these strategies in my classroom! : I can’t wait to use several of these strategies & email my DSD about how it goes!
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