Improving Student Question
All questions should be celebrated. They’re born of confusion and misunderstandings.
Strategies -
- Encourage questions - task based activity - What they know, what the need to know.
- Celebrate questions
- Create conversation and question design sessions
- Minimise negative signals to questions
- Be willing to walk away from planned lessons, allowing students to pursue relevant questions
- Be creative and be quiet
- Pair/Share,
- Small groups,
- Wondering Wall, explain the link of their question to the topic being discussed and add question to the wondering wall.
- Donut - Inside/outside circles,
- 1/3/6, Question counters/tokens - each student has same number of counters and must ask that number of questions,
- Think mats/Place mats
- Think board,
- Hands down - 60 sec to think of 2 questions,
- Idea harvest - sit in circle with own notes, add others ideas to your list.
- Modeling questions,
- Structure of groups, expect an outcome, - comment of agreement/disagreement, shared understanding
- 3 level guide for reading - come up with 3 questions
- Role play
- Hot seating
Wonder wall at staff meetings!!!
Wondering Wall - explain, have post its available, write down questions, add to the wall, have set time each week to discuss the questions.
When a child asks a statement turn it into a question AND when a child asks a question turn it into an activity!
Giving the answer often stops the thinking
Supon and Wolf (1993)
Why students do not ask questions -
- lack of understanding of taxonomies
- time constraints
- teachers’ fears
- content coverage needs
- improper modeling
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