Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Steps for Improving
Teacher Questions
The Importance of Asking Questions
Questioning in
the Content Area
Stuff You Should Know
100
Research indicates this teaching strategy is second only to lecturing
What is asking questions?
100

Don’t let a few students dominate a discussion.

What is getting all students involved?

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

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What is Cyresswood's TEA Accountability Rating?

200
Questioning is one of the nine research-based strategies presented in this book.
What is Classroom Instruction That Works?
200

A good way to get students involved in the discussion.

What is asking other students what they think?

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

February 9 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

What is the date and time of the next Aldine ISD Board meeting?

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

Additional days for teachers and campus staff to collaborate and plan. 

What are Remote Learning Days?

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

80%

What is the campus-wide goal of Cyresswood Elementary School?

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

March 15-19

What are........ the dates of spring break?

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