Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Three Steps for Improving Teacher Questions
The Importance of Asking Questions
Teaching Reading in the Content Area
Stuff You Should Know
100
Research indicates this teaching strategy is second only to lecturing
What is asking questions?
100
According to Robert Marzano's book, Classroom Instruction That Works, this percent of instruction involves asking questions.
What is 80%?
100
Socially, emotionally, and cognitively
What are the three ways/areas that the brain responds to questions?
100
The amount of time a teacher allows between asking a question and expecting a student to respond
What is wait time?
100
The next meeting of the Union County School Board will be held here.
What is Lockhart School?
200
Questioning is one of the nine research-based strategies presented in this book.
What is Classroom Instruction That Works?
200
According to the article, "Three Steps for Improving Teacher Questions", doing this activity is a waste of effort and time.
What is leading a class discussion?
200
Places that do not ask the range of questions children need to grow to their potential
What are schools?
200
One second
What is the typical wait-time teachers allow?
200
Union County Schools and its stakeholders commit to students first in building community, excellence, and lifelong learning.
What is the district mission statement?
300
Fact, closed, direct, recall, and knowledge questions are questions classified in this way.
What are lower cognitive questions?
300
If a teacher doesn't do this, most of the questions he/she asks will be knowledge and comprehension questions.
What is preparing questions in advance?
300
In this strategy, questions generally elicit yes or no answers.
What is "Ask a Closed Question"?
300
Using this strategy, rather than simply presenting questions in a whole-class situation, the teacher would want students to use questions as guides while they are reading.
What is Questioning the Author (QtA)?
300
A picture of this traffic signal on the home page of Union County Schools
What is a stop sign?
400
Research shows that while this strategy is effective for older students, those with high ability, and those interested in the subject matter, it is not as effective for young students and poor readers, who tend to focus only on the material that will help them answer the question.
What is asking questions prior to reading?
400
The interesting thing about this strategy is that it allows repetition without being repetitive.
What is scaffolding questions?
400
In this strategy, a teacher would follow a question with another question that probes for deeper understanding.
What is the Two-Question Rule?
400
In this strategy, students learn how to use their texts to answer a variety of different questions at different levels.
What is Question/Answer Relationships (QAR)?
400
School employees in Union, SC missed school on this date due to high winds, and will make it up on February 19
What is September 11?
500
This type of feedback has been shown to be unrelated to achievement.
What is vague or critical feedback?
500
Whole-class questioning value is limited, grouping in this way is a much more effective way to engage all students
What is small groups?
500
In this strategy, a teacher employs questions that open up the fullest range of distancing possibilities and open up students to the largest possibilities for accommodation of their thinking and elaboration of their existing understanding about what they are reading about or otherwise considering.
What is "Ask an Open-Ended" Question?
500
This strategy was developed by Mazo as a way to help students use questions to engage more fully in what they read.
What is Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest)?
500
April 2-6
What are........ the dates of spring break?
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