Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom A Step-By-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8

Name: Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom A Step-By-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8
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ISBN: 9780807753293

ISBN-10: 0807753297

ISBN-13: 9780807753293

Edition: 2012

Authors: Esther Fusco, Lawrence F. Lowry

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Questions are the most important tool a teacher can use to build a community of thinkers. This practical guide provides teachers with a step-by-step process for implementing a set of questioning strategies known as the Questioning Cycle. This strategy supports teachers in planning and asking questions, assessing students' responses, and following up those responses with more questions to extend thinking. In this book, you will see students become more curious and actively involved with learning because they are allowed to use their skills to question, examine, and argue about different aspects of a topic. K–8 teachers across all disciplines can use this book to create a challenging learning…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 4/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Importance of Questioning Strategies


The Impact of Questioning on Test-Taking


The Premises of This Book


The Structure of This Book


The Questioning Cycle


Active Processing


What Is the Questioning Cycle?


The Attributes of Questions


Using the Questioning Cycle in Your Classroom


Planning Effective Questions


The Elements of Planning


Putting It into a Lesson


Planning and Flexibility


Effective Questions


Structuring the Question


Approaches to Structuring Questions


Bloom's Taxonomy


The Costa Model


Differentiated Instruction


Tips for Beginning the Process


Variety in Questioning


Summary


Wait Time


What Is Wait Time?


Effects of Wait Time


Wait Time in the Questioning Cycle


Strategies for Wait Time


Using Wait Time for Differentiated Instruction


Building Awareness


Effective Listening


Listening


Questions


Assessing Responses and Preparing Follow-Up Questions


Assessing Student Responses: The SOLO Method


Preparing Follow-Up Questions


Analyzing Responses in Context


From Initial Questions to Follow-Up: A 6th-Grade Book Discussion


Another Example: A 1 st-Grade Discussion About Fall


Re-Planning Based on Students' Response: "Grand Conversations"


Using Responses to Re-Plan Instruction


Revising and Re-Planning


Strategies That Build Students' Responses


Re-Planning: Reflection, Practice, and Patience


Students' Own Questions


Teaching the Questioning Process


Examples of Encouraging the Questioning Process


The Impact of Questions


Tools for Teachers


The Impact of Questions: Final Thoughts


Notes from Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives


Notes from Gronland's Stating Objectives for Classroom Instruction


Questions to Use in Lessons


Anecdotal Form


Learning Guide


References


Index


About the Author