Effective Questioning and Discussion
5 Modules
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5.0
Would you like to learn how to reach all of your students–from the most naive to the higher performers? Then this is the course for you. In it you will learn how to incorporate strategies for effective questioning into our classroom, allowing you to assess and guide your instruction, provide effective feedback, check for understanding, and generate classroom discussions.
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Reach Every Student Through Purposeful Questioning
This course focuses on five key instructional areas that will improve both your questioning techniques and your students' outcomes. Each module features focused strategies, examples, and tools that you can immediately implement in your classroom.
Module 1
Rigorous, Text-Dependent Questions
- Increase effective use of rigorous text dependent questions to be used as formative assessments.
- Use questions, not as a test, but to drive the next steps in instruction: prompt, cue, explain, reteach, enrich.
- Increase use of open ended questions as opposed to closed questions
Module 2
Differentiated Question Types & Prompts
- Increase use of the 4 types of text dependent questions to effectively differentiate.
- Increase use of effective questioning prompts embedded in instruction when students are not at mastery
- Effectively differentiate instruction based on student mastery by creating questions increasingly based on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge.
Module 3
Checking for Understanding (CFU)
- Increase use of Checking for Understanding (CFU) every 2-3 minutes with naive students.
- Increase application of WHEN to Check for Understanding
Module 4
Actionable, Specific Feedback
- Increase effective, specific, instructional feedback to guide students to the next instructional steps.
- Increase use of when to: echo, elaborate, or explain based on students’ responses.
- Use a structured system for selecting non-volunteers during CFU questions.
Module 5
Collaborative Discussion Strategies
- Plan for use of effective strategies to create collaborative discussion groups at least 1-2 times a week.
- Effectively use model, lead and test to train routines and procedures for effective discussion groups.
- Strategically plan Turn & Talk to create effective discussion partners.
- Effectively use attention getters to reconvene groups at the end of the discussion time.
- Increase use of open ended and why questions.