QUALITY QUESTIONING RESPONSES
Chapter 1
From the chart on page 9, how will you commit to this
cycle of questioning for your future classroom? Why? Justify your
answer.
In my
future classroom I will consider:
- · the focus of my questions, using academic vocabulary and higher order questions
- · wait time and not skipping ahead to find a student who knows the "correct" answer.
- · Try to create questioning that requires all students to respond.
- · use responses to guide instruction-encourage student interaction to deepen thinking and understanding.
- · reflect on past performance
Chapter 2
As a beginning teacher, explain how you might use this rubric in
designing lessons and assessments in future work.
I would use this rubric to guide creation of questions being sure
to include elements of focusing on the learning goal (lesson objective) and
directing the focus of the lesson to the subject matter being studied. The
questions would elicit thought and query to promote higher level thinking. Academic language would be used in my
questions to engage students to think deeper about a topic. According to this
rubric, I would strive to achieve all “3s”.
Chapter 3
As you
review the Alternative Response section beginning on page 86, which response
ideas most resonate with your teaching style? Describe how you will implement
these in your future classroom.
Signaled responses allow children to
think and decide in their mind the correct movement to match the answer.
Movement is so important to keep kids motivated and engaged. This would be
perfect to incorporate into a classroom to keep children from just sitting and
listening. This teaching technique would fit perfectly into my classroom
because it would give children a voice while at the same time letting them get
some energy out by movement. I taught a lesson on punctuation using this
technique. For the period, I engaged the children to use their hand like a stop
sign to show the sentence ending (and we said the word STOP). For a question
mark, the children lifted their hands above their shoulder and shrugged (and we
said the sound, HUH?) The exclamation
point was balling fist and bringing elbow sharply down and saying CHA-CHING (in
excitement). This was very motivating for the children. We read lots of
sentences and the children participated as a group.
Chapter
4
As
you look at the poster, think of classrooms you've been in or lessons you've
taught. Consider how establishing these norms could impact student learning.
Now bring your thinking to your future classroom. Explain how you might set
these norms in your own teaching.
Practicing
wait time after asking a question really gives students time to consider their
answer. Before reading this book, I was not aware of wait time. Wait time helps
children to self-regulate as they resist the urge to blurt out the first thought
that comes to mind. It takes
self-discipline to think deeper about a topic in a more inquisitive way. I
would incorporate this in my classroom from day one by teaching my children
signals to indicate a pause in the lesson for a chance to think. After the think time I would use technology to
assess the classroom like Kahoot encourages participation from every student
and the importance each child’s answer is to the group. Kahoot is a website
that allows students to vote, take quiz or a survey. This website gathers
valuable information that help students answer anonymously. This will benefit
slow non fluent readers and ELL students by giving them the choice to
participate in something that will benefit the children.
Chapter 5
Review
the charts on page 150-151. As a new teacher, which of these responses do you
think will prove most challenging in your classroom? Explain how you will
purposefully implement this challenging approach.
In my
opinion, deciding how to direct my instruction once I have seen student
responses will be the most difficult aspect of looking at feedback. I am sure
there will be students who easily answer question and there will be several
that will struggle with answers. My job as a teacher is to appropriately
scaffold and support students who need help with a concept that is not
understood. I would reteach lessons that are not understood and pair students
who are struggling with students who understand the lesson.
QUALITY
QUESTIONING REALTIME BOARDS
Using
Realtime Boards is a great way to organize your thoughts into an easy to read
note-taking system. I created an anchor chart that allowed me to label each
chapter and keep my ideas in a neat and organized pattern. The “post it” note
was a handy feature to jot quick ideas I had about the topics of quality
questions. Realtime boards enable me to upload pictures and graphics that help
remind me of visual ideas that fit in with my notes. Realtime boards would be a
great tool for the classroom, especially in an upper grade that takes notes to
go along with reading about or listening to someone explain a complex concept.
21ST
CENTURY TOOL REVIEW-
Quizzizz
is a free application that is a great way to review lessons by allowing all
children to use an ipad to participate in questioning. Questioning is available
in a variety of formats including pictures and songs to engage children. Each
child can select a response and the teacher can see if check for understanding. Basic knowledge of using the internet and and an Ipad/computer are needed.
This app will allow a teacher to ensure that all students have a voice in the classroom in answering questions. These questions could be quick quizzes or detailed higher order thinking questions; it depends on the needs of the teacher.
This app will allow a teacher to ensure that all students have a voice in the classroom in answering questions. These questions could be quick quizzes or detailed higher order thinking questions; it depends on the needs of the teacher.
Classcraft
is another application that is free to use. Teacher can use it to change how they
teach through the use of a “game” format.
The teacher runs the game and awards points for student participation and/or
successful completion of activities and assignments. There is a bit of time
invested for set up but the overarching idea for the app is for a “collective
accountability” to encourage group participation.
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