how does asking our students questions engage them in their learning? campbell county schools
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What, Why, How….
What are you learning? Ask this question after going over the learning target for the lesson.
Why are you learning about this? Make a real-world connection with the students so they see how this effects their daily lives.
How can I use what I am learning? I can use this concept (math) for adding up my lunch money. (science) for seeing what I need to wear for the day
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Jigsaw Explore the your assigned level of
Bloom’s with your team Consider:
The definition Verbs for objectives Outcome/product/instructional strategies Model questions What do you think the relationship of student
engagement is to each level? Prepare a chart for our gallery walk that
represents your level of Bloom’s
Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory. Think: How engaging?
Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. Think: How engaging?
Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing. Think: How engaging?
Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing. Think: How engaging?
Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing. Think: How engaging?
Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing. Think: How engaging?
Student Engagement
What is the power in these questions? How can these be used in the classroom to
enhance student engagement? How often should these questions be
asked? What does this do to enhance the learning in the classroom?
How can they be part of assessment? How can this add to engagement of the students?
How are thinking processes related to language functions ? Which language functions are most engaging?
A thinking process becomes a language function when we communicate our thoughts in written or spoken words.
Identify the actions in the 2nd column that are language functions – indicate which may be most engaging to students.
Goldilocks Example
Remember: Describe where Goldilocks lives. ______ lives in ______ which is _______.
Understand: Summarize what the Goldilocks story was about. The story was about a ________ who _________.
Goldilocks Example Apply: Construct a theory as to why
Goldilocks went into the house. I think _____________ because ___________.
Goldilocks Example Analyze: Differentiate between how
Goldilocks reacted and how you would react in each story event.
If I were Goldilocks I would have _____________.
Me
Goldilocks Example Evaluate: Assess whether or not you think
this is a fantasy or a reality. I think this story is __________ because
________.
Create: Compose a song, skit, poem, or rap to convey the Goldilocks story in a new form with a modern day theme.
I think this story is __________ because_____.
Developing Rigorous Questions Powerful Questions, essential questions
and smart questions are the foundation for information, engaged learning and informational literacy
Five Questions about a title Last Lines
How do the questions line up with Blooms? How can those responses be used as a
formative assessment? For differentiation? How engaging are these questions for
students?
Socrates on Questioning
Thinking is not driven by answers, but by questions Every intellectual field is born out of a cluster of
questions to which answers are either needed or highly desirable
Questions define tasks, express problems and delineate issues. Answers signal full stop in thought
Only when an answer generates a further question does though continue its life
The quality of questions students ask determines the quality of the thinking they are doing
No questions=no understanding Superficial questions= superficial understanding
What Questions Matter?
Why?- requires analysis of cause and effect and
the relationship between variablesHow?- the basis for problem-solving and
synthesisWhich?- requires thoughtful decision-making
Give examples of questions hereExamples should be “problem based” – so they can see how the question
could walk right into an action/task/project based learning activity….Does that make sense to you?
1. An essential question that encompasses the entire year
2. An essential question that encompasses one of your instructional units
3. An essential question that can be answered after a lesson
Essential Questions
Are central to our lives, common to all and contestable
Are the heart of the search for truth Probe the deepest issues Are at the center of all the other types of
questions Lend themselves to multidisciplinary
investigations Answers are not readily found Engage students in real-life problem solving Need to be answered with subsidiary questions
What does this look like?
Open ended questions Non “yes” or “no” answer possibilities Precise language Include wait time Acknowledge or all responses Response must be non-judgmental or “guess what I’m
thinking” – not looking for “pleasing the authority” Paraphrase, not praise Rephrase, not repeat Thinking aloud Think/pair/share Entices more questioning