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Develop Your Questioning Techniques
Patty Blanton
Assistant Editor The Physics Teacher
Instructional coach for Modeling High School Physics, Physical Science, and Chemistry MSP
Grant
Classroom ClimateClearly establish the expectations of the learning partners
Expectations of Students: 1. Contribute to building knowledge 2. Answer questions clearly, carefully, and thoughtfully3. Speak so that everyone in class can hear4. Respect the ideas of others5. Challenge ideas respectfully6. Engage in dialogue to clarify ideas presented
Expectations of Teacher: 1. Plan significant questions to develop understanding of the established instructional goal2. Provide sufficient wait time3. Keep the discussion focused4. Encourage students to elaborate and clarify responses 5. Draw in as many students as possible6. Periodically summarize
Assessing for Prior Knowledge
Checking for prior knowledge gives insight to guide your instruction. Periodic assessments during a unit help adjust your planning to meet the needs of students. Example: Using www.wordle.net to determine what ideas students think are important about the topic being discussed Other possibilities:Pre-tests concept mapping (Inspiration)" clickers"various web applications such as online surveys
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
1.Knowledge (remember)2.Comprehension (understand)3.Application (apply)4.Analysis (analyze)5.Synthesis (create)6.Evaluation (evaluate)
Jamie MacKenzie's Questioning Toolkit
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html Types of questions and various tools to develop these questions and answers
A Thinker's Guide the Socratic Questioning Sample
Let's PracticeLesson on motion: What is motion and what are the ways we can describe it? Teacher will:Plan activities to engage studentsThink about the types of questions to ask and strategies to guide the development of ideasPlan the assessment strategies to check progress Students will:Observe, ask questions, contribute ideas, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions based on the data, apply the concept to several situations
Building a model for motion:
Watch the moving objectsDescribe the motionIdentify what is changing and what is measurableIs there a pattern to what is changing and how it is changing?Collect and analyze data to identify patternSummarize resultsDevelop operational definitions and associate names to the conceptsApply to a novel situation
Types of representations
Graphs and mathematical representations
Help identify and quantify relationships between variables Mathematical equations come from curve-fitting to graphed data
Graphic and descriptive representations
Motion mapsConcept mappingDiagramsVerbal representations
Links to helpful websites
Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Instructional Strategies based on the research from: Classroom Instruction that Works by Marzano, Pickering, Pollockhttp://www.tltguide.ccsd.k12.co.us/instructional_tools/Strategies/Strategies.html Professional Organizations: AAPT: http://www.aapt.org/NSTA: http://www.NSTA.org/Modeling Science Instruction: http://modeling.asu.edu/modeling-HS.html
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