INQUIRY BASED LEARNING AND QUESTIONING TRAINING
What does a good question do?
- Stimulates different levels of thinking.
- Checks for and confirms knowledge, understanding, and awareness.
- Expands knowledge and extend thinking.
- Piques curiosity, imagination, interest and wonder.
- Encourages students to express and share the depth and extent of their learning in their own unique way.
- Prompts students to reflect before responding.
- Presents the instructional focus and purpose for learning as a question.
What will you take away from this training?
- Identify the types of good questions that promote cognitive rigor and student inquiry.
- Recognize the seven forms of inquiry students can engage in experience.
- Understand how good questions prompt students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and comprehend and communicate their learning at different levels of Depth of Knowledge (DOK).
- Pose good questions to activate, advance, assess and augment student learning.
- Rephrase the performance objectives of academic standards and learning targets into good questions that will set the instructional focus, serve as assessments, and personalize learning.
- Develop and deliver inquiry based learning experiences using the Inquiring Minds Framework.
- Choose which of the seven forms of inquiry students will engage in and experience based on the demand of the standards, the strength of the students, and the intent of the inquiry.
- Utilize generative artificial intelligence (AI) and e-search engines as a stimulus to come up with good questions students could address through inquiry and questioning.
- Plan and provide inquiry based teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive.
- Realize how teaching and learning with an inquiring mind ensures the experience is academic, affective, and authentic for all.
Teaching and Learning with Good Questions
Inquiring Minds Want to Learn
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Learn how to develop and deliver inquiry based learning experiences driven by good questions that will "hook" students' curiosity and interest to learn, assess and build knowledge, deepen understanding, and develop expertise.
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Learn what the overarching essential good questions are that promote inquiry based learning at each DOK Level and how the Depth of Knowledge demanded by a good question depends on the extent of the response students must provide.
Now That's a Good Question!
Good Questioning for Depth of Knowledge
Now That's a Good Question!
Learn what are the eight types of good questions that promote cognitive rigor by challenging students to demonstrate different levels of thinking and understand and use their Depth of Knowledge in different contexts.
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Inquiring Minds Want to Learn:
Posing Good Questions
to Promote Student Inquiry
by
Erik M. Francis
Published by Solution Tree