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Essential Questions&
Questioning Strategies
Title: May 2411:16 AM (1 of 14)
Silly Putty Activity:• What do you and silly putty have in common when it comes to classroom teaching?• share with your buddy• round-table share with the group
Title: May 2411:24 AM (2 of 14)
Title: May 2411:34 AM (3 of 14)
Todays Essential Question:
How can student questions guide inquiry?
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Title: May 2411:21 AM (4 of 14)
To what degree should student questions drive instruction?(grouping strategies) • Left side of room: if you feel that it should completely drive instruction• Right side of room: if you feel that it should not drive instruction• Middle of the room: if you have mixed feelings
• One from each group form a group of 3 and answer this question: • How can teachers use student questions to guide instruction and still cover curriculum standards?Using emints resources
Title: May 2411:24 AM (5 of 14)
• Look at my object• What in the world is this????• Take a minute think about it
Use script to ask and answer questions about the object
• What I am curious about is....• What I do not yet understand is....• I really want to find out about....• The mysteries and puzzles that really intrigue me are....• I really wonder why....• What intrigues me is....
Title: May 241:02 PM (6 of 14)
Encouraging Quality Peer Interaction• I understand what _____ is saying but I wonder....• Here's my thought on that question (or thought).....What do you think?• That's an interesting perspective......I wonder......
Cross Talk Guidelines(handout)
Title: May 241:14 PM (7 of 14)
Types of questions• Inference Questions• Interpretation Questions• Transfer Questions• Hypothesis Questions• Reflective Questions
Look at article "The Art of Questioning"review types of questions
Listen to book: Where the Wild Things Are
Title: May 241:21 PM (8 of 14)
Use grouping strategies • 5 groups• each group will be given a type of question to create• each group will develop questions related to the book
Title: May 241:29 PM (9 of 14)
What is an Essential Question?
• groups look at web resources
• compile a list of what you think an essential question is
• groups go to tables and create a visual aid of what an Essential Question is
Be Creative!!!!!
Have each group explain their visual aid
Title: May 241:36 PM (10 of 14)
Essential Question / Non Essential Question• In groups decide if given questions are essential or non essential
• As a group discuss each question and where it belongs
Title: May 241:43 PM (11 of 14)
When writing an Essential Question
• Use language that all students will understand.• Base the question on overaching ideas or problems.• Write the question in a way that will engage students in wanting to know more.• Develop a question for which no single right answer exists.• Write the question so it involves thinking, not just answering. • Base the question on upper levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Title: May 243:15 PM (12 of 14)
Essential Question• group by grade level• choose a PASS objective• develop an essential question for that objective
In a go-round: state objective and essential question developed
Title: May 241:49 PM (13 of 14)
A classroom that values questions:• set high expectations• develop a positive scripts• model questioning strategies• encourage quality peer interaction• students should feel comfortable taking risks, and asking questions that will help them understand a new concept• students become active learners and think deeply as they develope and refine their questions• students are not waiting for someone to tell them about a topic • students are not asked to only recall simple questions• students are actively engaged in their OWN learning
Title: May 2412:24 PM (14 of 14)