To Do
1. Reflect on the scenarios.
Think about how you would incorporate the scenarios into your practice.
Questions that Gather Information |
Thinking is driven by questioning. Effective questions can facilitate various levels of thinking and reflection. Select a lesson plan you have taught at least once and make a list of all the questions you can remember asking your students. (Note: This list will be used in the subsequent module’s practice scenarios.) Read the seven general strategies highlighted in The Teaching Center’s Asking Questions to Improve Learning article. Review the questions that you previously listed and update these questions as necessary to incorporate the seven strategies. Next, review Row 1 of the Questions for Life model. Identify which of your lesson questions have or use the same or similar Cue Words that are identified in Row 1. Consider the following: How have these questions helped your students gather information related to the lesson? Based on the Row 1 Cue Words, what additional questions could you ask while teaching this lesson?
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Strategies for Effective Questioning |
Questioning techniques are an often used, and thus widely researched, teaching strategy. Teachers spend a good portion of their instructional time asking questions. Are these questions effective in raising student achievement? How can teachers ask better questions of their students? How can current educational research inform practice? Watch this seven-minute video entitled Questioning Styles and Strategies and identify the techniques the instructor uses. Reflect on how these questioning strategies could be implemented in your classroom.
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Inquiry-based Learning |
Inquiry-based learning incorporates active-learning methods to engage students in the learning process. This hands-on approach gets them involved with the material which leads to a higher content retention rate. Review the three inquiry-based lesson plans from the Concept to Classroom: Inquiry-based Learning workshop. Next, use the the Concept to Classroom: Inquiry-based Learning workshop's Step-by-step facilitation-plan creation outline to develop an inquiry-based lesson plan of your own.
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Interactive Scenarios |
Review the interactive scenarios below and think about how you would incorporate them into your practice. |
2. Take the Knowledge Check Assessment.
Review your pre-assessment reflection. In a two-paragraph response, describe how questions can be used in the classroom to assist students with gathering and understanding information. Address the following in your response:
- Describe three questioning strategies that align with the criteria for a proficient teacher in the Questioning and Discussion Techniques (3b) component. These questions should be designed to promote student gathering of information.
- How will you implement these questioning strategies within your classroom?
- How can asking questions encourage students to gather information and gain a deeper understanding of content?
Submit your responses on the Assessments Tab. (Knowledge Check 1.2)
After you have read the content and submitted the Knowledge Check Assessment, click Next.
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