quality questioning: what you need to know
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Quality Questioning presentation for BISD's Summer Institute 2013TRANSCRIPT
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?”
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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