Questioning+Skills

**Developing Questioning Skills**  **Questioning and Questioning Skills ** **Every student reads, writes, thinks and talks in every classroom everyday.**

**Subject/Grade Level**: Adults **Lesson Time: 90 minutes**


 * Lesson Synopsis**
 * Participants will develop a reference chart for best practice questioning skills and a procedure for self-analysis of questioning skills. ||

**Big Idea:** Use of the CIF with students will increase student understanding.

**Learning Outcomes - Students will be able to:**
 * 1. Develop a reference chart for teachers to use to support developing questioning skills. ||
 * 2. Analyze Questions used or to be used. ||
 * 3. Use the questioning procedure form to assess your own skills and/or observe students in another classroom for response to questioning techniques(skills). ||

**21st Century Skills**
 * Critical Thinking ||
 * Ability to work and learn in teams ||
 * Communication ||

**Materials Needed**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Article, analysis forms, chart paper ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**Lesson Activities**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Questioning ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Write for 5 minutes in response to: How would you describe your Questioning Skills with students? How do your students respond to your questions? || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">5-7 min ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Step 1** ||||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Instructional Strategy** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Teacher Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Student Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Time (min)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">WTL

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">CT <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">WTL <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Questioning <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Scaffolding || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Each person will become an expert on a section of the Developing Questioning Skills article. The group will develop a reference chart for questioning skills. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Group Work Roles: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Leader, Recorder, Reporters, Active Listener(summarizer), Connector || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Each person will read the assigned section of the article. Each person will be contributing from their section what would be important on a reference chart. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The group will develop a reference chart for best practices questioning skills. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Present chart to principal and IC. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Upload chart to Resources on this page. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">50 min. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Step 2** ||||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Instructional Strategy** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Teacher Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Student Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Time (min)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">CGW

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">WTL <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Scaffolding || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Explain assignment: Each of you will critique your own questioning skills, not just the level of questions used with students. So use of a procedure will support the observation of yourself and when you begin to observe students in classrooms for rounds. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Using the Procedure on page 5 as a guide, rewrite the procedure to use for yourself to critique your questioning skills based on reference chart. Upload procedure to Resources on this page. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">20 min. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Step 3** ||||||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Instructional Strategy** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Teacher Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Student Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Time (min)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">CT

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Scaffolding <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Questioning <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">CT || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Provide the analysis form, with sample and give them learning outcomes assignment. Provide them with the new Silent discussion protocol and reminders for QAR and Question Matrix. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Each student will return to the WTL: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">How would you describe your questioning skills? How do your students respond to your questions? What would you add to your thoughts? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">On the Discussion Tab of this page: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Respond to: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">How will you refine your questioning skills? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">How would you word a student learning question, if a colleague were to observe your students for questioning in your classroom? || **<span style="font-family: 'Garamond','serif';">10 min ** || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Resources**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Lesson Closing** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Instructional Strategy** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Closing Teacher Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Closing Student Activity** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Time (min)** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">WTL



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Assessments of Learning Outcomes** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Reflect: How will you refine your questioning skills?
 * # <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Teachers will use the reference chart to critique their own questioning skills using the procedure developed.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Teachers will analyze at least two lesson plans for levels of questions using the Question Analysis Form and write a reflection using the questions on Page 6 #6. ||