Quality Questioning: What you Need to Know

Quality Questioning:

What you need to know

A Summer Institute 2013 Session presented by Katie Gray

Quality Questioning:

What you need to know

A Summer Institute 2013 Session presented by Katie Gray

Wait…. What?

Today’s Learning Target:

→ I can use at least 3 strategies to create a culture for thinking in my classroom.

A Culture for Thinking

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

A Culture for Thinking

What puts the “quality” in questions?

Pre-planned!!

Fewer, deeper questions

Engage students at higher levels of thinking

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

Using the Language of Thinking

Thinking word wall

Question stems posted o “What if…”

o “I wonder…”

o “Can you imagine?”

How do we nurture student thinking?

11 questions in 25 seconds?

Attend

to the

question

Bring into

working

memory &

decode

Search for

connection

in long-term

memory

match

Think

through

question

and

formulate

answer

Respond

aloud

11 questions in 25 seconds?

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 oCorrect their answers as they’re

saying them aloud

Stop and

Think

Listen and

Learn

10 min? 15 min?

Making Students “Response-able”

Hold them accountable for the learning oWhite boards oHold-ups o Signals o Ink Think o Turn & talk oClickers

Teach them the skills of discussion

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

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

Let’s Practice!

Vote with Your Feet

+

Productive Discussion

Talent is genetic.

What are NORMS, exactly?

The foundation for a classroom culture

Set the tone for whole year

Cultivate teamwork and sense of family

NORMS

Norms for Thinking

Purposes of Questioning

Wait Times

Participation

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.

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.

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.

A Culture for Thinking

Choose one of these pictures and compare it to a culture of thinking using this sentence starter:

A thinking culture is like a _____ because _________.

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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