Questioning

Questioning Workshop


 * New Version**


 * Guiding Questions**
 * What is questioning?
 * What are some ways that students develop and ask their own questions?
 * How can effective questions help teachers scaffold to new learning?

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to
 * Workshop Outcomes**
 * recognize the importance of questioning as an instructional strategy
 * understand how questioning can be used as an assessment strategy
 * have 3 new strategies for implementing questioning in the classroom
 * understand the key principles of questioning
 * incorporate their prior knowledge and experience in the content of this workshop

__Introduction of the Workshop__ Introduce the key principles of the workshop:
 * Keep questioning focused and on topic
 * Use wait time and pacing to encourage all students to engage
 * Ask questions of varying difficulty from basic remembering to higher levels of critical questioning like evaluating and creating
 * Encourage student-to-student questioning as well as student-to-teacher questioning
 * Use questioning as a formative assessment to gauge where students are in their own understanding of the topic

__Workshop Activity__ 2. Working as a group, generate one question at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy about the article, //**or**// review a particular lesson that you are teaching and revise it by upgarding the levels of questioning.  3. Share out.
 * 1) http://newschoolsproject.org/uploads/library/0807-questioning-article.pdf

__Workshop Closing__: **Exit ticket:** Write a response to the following question: //How can you use these questioning techniques to engage students in learning and to help them make meaning of texts?//

//Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs://