Saturday, April 2, 2016

Effective Questioning to Increase Thinking

Dr. Marion Small, a renowned author and Math Consultant,  was at Tecumseh Vista on Saturday for the Edcamp Conference today. She emphasized the point that our curriculum expectations are worded as "just do it" expectations - not thinking expectations.   A teacher can make a lesson thought-provoking or bland and would still meet the curriculum expectation as worded .... but the consensus is that we want to develop "thinkers". We can address this by altering the way we ask questions.  Even a rich task can go "dead" if it doesn't embed provocation for students' questions. Even struggling students need to be challenged to think rather than be given simple questions with simple answers. Have a look at the link below for her presentation and samples for the simple ways to alter our questioning tactics. 


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