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Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson
Question stems that align with Bloom's taxonomy of learning, cards that target student interests and total student participation, and mnemonic devices will enhance your questioning techniques at any point in a lesson.
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The Second Chance Student
Many students who are capable of doing well in school get tripped up by behavior or a series of bad choices. How do you help these students push the reset button on their school performance? This includes setting expectations, providing a pathway to achieving or exceeding goals, reframing student and teacher mindsets, providing opportunities for restorative justice and advisory groups that guide student decision-making.
Questioning Strategies
A good question is classroom gold. Researchers estimate that anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of instructional time is spent on questioning, so imagine the return on investment for fine- tuning this popular instructional tool.
Here, educators share their secrets for crafting meaningful, higher- order questions, for getting students to write their own questions, and for putting inquiry at the heart of everything.
Einstein's 55 Minutes
Follow these seven precepts to practice purposeful questioning that engages students and teachers in the dialogue of learning.
Doing the Work of Historians: Authentic Questioning in Social Studies
If you want your students to think like historians (or geographers, economists, policy makers, sociologists, or archaeologists), then ask them authentic questions with which these professionals might grapple.
Teaching Students to Ask Rich Questions
Students customize their learning through the questions they ask. Provide the big ideas, invitation to question, and the question formulation technique to help them tailor their experience.
Nearpod: A Technology Tool to Engage Students in Inquiry
This free tool provides an accessible way to integrate more questions into your lessons and capture the data from questions to make instructional refinements. Transform presentations into active, question-driven learning experiences.
Why Don't We Value Problem-Posing?
Teaching students to pose an interesting problem is sometimes more important than teaching them to problem-solve.
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Field Notes: Who's Asking the Questions?
A science teacher turns over authorship of assessment questions to his students.
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