looking directly at a speaker to indicate you are listening to them
What is maintaining eye contact?
100
the teacher (or a student) thinks of a person, place or thing and the class asks a set number of yes or no questions to identify the chosen noun
What is Twenty Questions?
100
using symbols, words or phrases to help student recall
What are cueing / clueing?
100
class responds together to simple but important questions; often the question is asked over and over in a row
What are choral responses?
100
to review for a particular assessment, to check comprehension over a particular topic, to provide detailed discussion topics, etc.
What is to question with a specific purpose?
200
non-verbally communicates your feelings on the topic of discussion; uses a variety of silent displays including smiling, opening eyes wide, using hand signals, head movements, and crossing (or uncrossing) arms and legs;
What is body language?
200
teacher provides an answer and students try to formulate appropriate questions
What is Answer/Question (aka Jeopardy)? =)
200
looking for reasoning behind an incorrect response or asking for clarity when a response is incomplete; asking students to dig deeper into their answer
What is probing?
200
students respond with a particular body language, such as thumbs up / thumbs down or head nods
What are signaled answers?
200
structuring questions based on what you want students to know, understand and be able to do
What is to question with clear content focus?
300
using brief comments such as "yes", "I agree", "uh-huh" or "continue" to encourage a person to continue to share their thoughts
What are verbal acknowledgments?
300
students work in pairs to discuss a given topic but may only converse in questions; can be used as a contest by counting how many legitimate questions were in the conversation; challenge students to answer their questions
What is Question/Question?
300
posing the same question in different words or from a different perspective
What is to rephrase?
300
teacher poses a question to the class; students work in small groups to come to an agreement on the answer; group sizes can vary from 2 - 5
What is Numbered Heads Together?
300
questioning on different levels; such as: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation
What is to question with varied and appropriate cognitive levels?
400
adjusting one's position in the classroom to encourage a student to continue a discussion or to discourage a student's behavior
What is using physical distance?
400
students prepare to interview a famous person related to the current class topic; emphasize the format of questions and determine priority topics; opportunity for use of current events
What is Talk Show?
400
posing the same question to a different student, either immediately after the first or later in the lesson to emphasize the importance of the topic
What is redirecting?
400
teacher poses a question central to a class discussion then each student give ONE WORD that best expresses their response; the words then driven the discussion
What is Say-it-in-a-Word?
400
considering wording and syntax to guarantee each question is grammatically correct, "single-barreled" and complete
What is to question clearly and concisely?
500
restating or paraphrasing the main idea presented by students to be sure students' understand the concept being discussed; can be used at the beginning of class to prepare students for the day's activity, part way through class to determine student understanding or at the end of class to finish the lesson
What is summarizing?
500
students are assigned a reading in class then are asked to write questions based on the class reading; students then take turns asking and answering their questions; can use "Around the World" format
What is Round Robin Questioning?
500
later during the lesson, check back with student who responded incorrectly to a question to determine if the student has retained the correct knowledge
What is holding accountable later?
500
give the class 4 metaphors for the current topic; have students choose their corner and discuss with like-minded students to explain their reasoning
What is Four-Corner Synectics?
500
although time consuming, pivotal questions should not rely on luck; to save time for the future, create a master file of quality questions