Science+Professionals+Workshop

=Effective Questioning Skills & Higher Order Thinking= Move from asking "guess what I'm thinking" questions to "what is the student thinking" questions.


 * What is the purpose of questions?**


 * Expository Questions**


 * Essential Questions**
 * posted and referred to often, if not, sends the message that it's not really important
 * Suggestion that EQ can "land our lessons" by grounding the lesson


 * Bloom's Taxonomy**
 * Info Seeking Questions - lower/middle level
 * Info Processing Questions - middle/higher level

Do I "fish" for the correct answer? How do we keep our students "on the hook"
 * "I'm going to ask the boys a question and then ask girls a follow-up question."

Repeating answers creates an environment where students feel they cannot speak to other students. Educators become conduits between students.

Research shows that educators ask more questions than they estimate (20/75). Educators also overestimate how many questions students ask (15/4).

Provide "Think Time" not "Wait Time" for students to work though an answer to a question.

Redirecting is like baseball. The pitcher (teacher) throws the question to the batter (student1) where the other students field the response. (Develops community)

1. Pose a question 2. Ask Follow-Up (or redirected) question 3. Make an acknowledgement
 * 3 Step Approach to Better Questions**

=Outdoor Inquiry= Sheila Myers, //Finger Lakes Institute// & Ann Lyons, //South Seneca HS//


 * Tools & Resources**
 * not necessary to use all tools
 * time and people as key resources