Characteristics of Quality Questioning

This benefits the students in 2 ways: • The appropriate and varied levels of thinking are used.

• The questions are congruent with the

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Characteristics of Quality Questions

2. The higher the level of question that is asked, the more

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slowly before prompting or calling on another student to answer a question.

Thinking is always in rough draft form. All students’ answers

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Characteristics of Quality Questions

4. The most important part of the questioning process is: “good” and “right” and instead probe to encourage students to make connections and complete their thoughts .

Characteristics of Quality Questions questions while reading was the strongest scientifically-based evidence of seven strategies that improve reading comprehension.

Characteristics of Quality Questions 6. Give _ _____ students opportunities to engage and activate prior knowledge by information from long-term memory. Ask the question first before calling on a student.

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STEP 1: Choose & Use a Questioning System Questioning Systems:

1. Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised) 2. Deeper Learning Domains 3. Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) 4. Art Costa’s (3 Tier Home) 5. Webb’s Depth of Knowledge

The Question Formulation Technique

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1. Produce your Own Questions Ask as many questions as you can Don’t stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions Write down everything exactly as it is stated Change any statement into a question

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2. Improve Your Questions Categorize them as closed or open-ended

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3. Prioritize Your Questions Choose the 3 most important questions. Why?

Good, Better, Best Question

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Have students create 2 questions about a picture or topic. (GOOD) Answer those questions.

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Then students create 2 additional questions that are “higher” level than the first three. (BETTER) Answer those questions.

Finally, ask students to create “highest” level question. (BEST) GOAL: Each set of questions should require more thinking than the other.

SUPPORT: Might give question stems for Bloom’s to help students generate the questions.

Question Marking ?A

– Question to Author (Why did you…) ?T – Question to Teacher (Confused about text) ?S – Question to Self (Content to research) ?F – Question to a Friend (To review later)