Thursday, February 9, 2012
•Questioning–By Teachers–By Students
• Artifact Activity –With questioning strategies
Lesson Objectives
• SWBAT– Identify strategies for effective teacher questioning
and strengthening student questioning strategies.– Define the Socratic Method– Evaluate their own use of questions during lessons.– Evaluate their use of wait time.– Implement strategies that encourage students to use
higher order thinking and develop “thick” and “thin” questions.
– Brainstorm possible lesson ideas exploring the concepts of Archeology and Artifacts.
About this lesson
• Method?• Combination of a
couple different lessons I’ve done– U.S. History
Simulation Book– Archeology Unit– At Risk 6th / 8th grade
history
Questioning
• Teacher Questioning Strategies
• Student Questioning Strategies
Teacher Questioning Strategies
• Wait Time• Write Questions into
lesson plan.• Open/Closed• Thick/Thin• Use Bloom’s Taxonomy-
spend at least half of time on higher levels – Higher Order Thinking
• Questions that ask students to evaluate
• Questions that ask students for creative solutions – synthesize
Teacher QuestioningEach Stage of Lesson Plan
Exploratory/Anticipatory Set– Broad questions– Employ prior understanding– All students can answer– Guide Lesson
Lesson Development– Skills– Main Concepts
Expansion– Applying skills in new contexts– Ask students to evaluate– Evaluate new attitudes towards
concept
Socratic Method•What have you heard about the Socratic Method before? Any prior experience with it?
• Used to examine concepts with no concrete definition.
•A line of questioning that gets participants to examine the truth of their own beliefs.
•Challenge Assumptions
•“Devil’s Advocate”
Student Questioning Strategies
• Help students differentiate between thick v. thin questions.– Thin: Questions of clarifications– Thick: Questions that require students to extend their
thinking beyond the given topic.
• Strategies that encourage students to ask questions:– While they read– About their own thinking (metacognition)– While they are completing activities
Archeology/Jamestown Lesson
Lesson Objectives:SWBAT1. Identify some information
archeologists have learned about Jamestown from artifacts.
2. Evaluate the important work archeologists do.
3. Evaluate how difficult it is to be an archeologist.
Anticipatory Set/Exploratory Introduction
• Reading about Jamestown
• Thick v. Thin Questions with Post It Notes
• Key Question
• Video:– http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscover
y/page.php?page_id=6
Lesson Development
• Jamestown Artifacts
• Artifact Analysis
• Thick v. Thin Questions with Post It Notes
• Discussion Questions
Expansion
• Mystery Artifacts
• Discussion Questions
Midterm Evaluations
• Turn in and then sign your name to the sheet for your 5 points for the day!