Essential Questions&

Questioning Strategies

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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

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Todays Essential Question:

How can student questions guide inquiry?

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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

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• 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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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