Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8
Questions are the most important tool a teacher can use to build a community of thinkers. This practical guide provides teachers with a step-by-step process for implementing a set of questioning strategies known as the Questioning Cycle. This strategy supports teachers in planning and asking questions, assessing students’ responses, and following up those responses with more questions to extend thinking. In this book, you will see students become more curious and actively involved with learning because they are allowed to use their skills to question, examine, and argue about different aspects of a topic. K–8 teachers across all disciplines can use this book to create a challenging learning climate and lively class discussions.

Book Features:

  • In-depth guidance for using and developing effective questions.
  • Reflections from teachers.
  • Scripts of teacher questions and student responses.
  • Suggested activities at the end of each chapter.
  • Support material for teachers, including evaluation checklists and forms.
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Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8
Questions are the most important tool a teacher can use to build a community of thinkers. This practical guide provides teachers with a step-by-step process for implementing a set of questioning strategies known as the Questioning Cycle. This strategy supports teachers in planning and asking questions, assessing students’ responses, and following up those responses with more questions to extend thinking. In this book, you will see students become more curious and actively involved with learning because they are allowed to use their skills to question, examine, and argue about different aspects of a topic. K–8 teachers across all disciplines can use this book to create a challenging learning climate and lively class discussions.

Book Features:

  • In-depth guidance for using and developing effective questions.
  • Reflections from teachers.
  • Scripts of teacher questions and student responses.
  • Suggested activities at the end of each chapter.
  • Support material for teachers, including evaluation checklists and forms.
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Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8

Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8

by Esther Fusco
Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8
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Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8

Effective Questioning Strategies in the Classroom: A Step-by-Step Approach to Engaged Thinking and Learning, K-8

by Esther Fusco

Overview

Questions are the most important tool a teacher can use to build a community of thinkers. This practical guide provides teachers with a step-by-step process for implementing a set of questioning strategies known as the Questioning Cycle. This strategy supports teachers in planning and asking questions, assessing students’ responses, and following up those responses with more questions to extend thinking. In this book, you will see students become more curious and actively involved with learning because they are allowed to use their skills to question, examine, and argue about different aspects of a topic. K–8 teachers across all disciplines can use this book to create a challenging learning climate and lively class discussions.

Book Features:

  • In-depth guidance for using and developing effective questions.
  • Reflections from teachers.
  • Scripts of teacher questions and student responses.
  • Suggested activities at the end of each chapter.
  • Support material for teachers, including evaluation checklists and forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807753293
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 04/06/2012
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Esther Fusco is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lawrence F. Lowery xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

The Importance of Questioning Strategies 3

The Impact of Questioning on Test-Taking 5

The Premises of This Book 6

The Structure of This Book 7

1 The Questioning Cycle 9

Active Processing 10

What Is the Questioning Cycle? 11

The Attributes of Questions 13

Using the Questioning Cycle in Your Classroom 20

2 Planning Effective Questions 24

The Elements of Planning 25

Putting It into a Lesson 36

Planning and Flexibility 36

Effective Questions 39

3 Structuring the Question 42

Approaches to Structuring Questions 42

Bloom's Taxonomy 45

The Costa Model 51

Differentiated Instruction 52

Tips for Beginning the Process 54

Variety in Questioning 56

Summary 58

4 Wait Time 60

What Is Wait Time? 60

Effects of Wait Time 61

Wait Time in the Questioning Cycle 62

Strategies for Wait Time 63

Using Wait Time for Differentiated Instruction 66

Building Awareness 68

5 Effective Listening 70

Listening 73

Questions 75

6 Assessing Responses and Preparing Follow-Up Questions 77

Assessing Student Responses: The SOLO Method 78

Preparing Follow-Up Questions 80

Analyzing Responses in Context 83

From Initial Questions to Follow-Up: A 6th-Grade Book Discussion 83

Another Example: A 1 st-Grade Discussion About Fall 87

Re-Planning Based on Students' Response: "Grand Conversations" 95

7 Using Responses to Re-Plan Instruction 97

Revising and Re-Planning 98

Strategies That Build Students' Responses 100

Re-Planning: Reflection, Practice, and Patience 105

8 Students' Own Questions 107

Teaching the Questioning Process 110

Examples of Encouraging the Questioning Process 111

9 The Impact of Questions 116

Tools for Teachers 118

The Impact of Questions: Final Thoughts 120

Appendix A Notes from Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives 125

Appendix B Notes from Gronland's Stating Objectives for Classroom Instruction 127

Appendix C Questions to Use in Lessons 128

Appendix D Anecdotal Form 130

Appendix E Learning Guide 131

References 133

Index 137

About the Author 145

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Amid vivid stories, the reader finds the scaffolding for how to construct a classroom built on children’s thinking.”
—Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Hofstra University


“This book reads like a blueprint for transformative teaching and belongs on every educator's desk.”
—Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Louisiana State University


“If you are serious about improving your knowledge about questions and your skill in using them, this is the book for you. Putting some time and effort into the suggested practice will be personally rewarding, and your students will benefit greatly from your effective use of questions.”
—From the Foreword by Lawrence F. Lowery, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley


“Teachers and school administrators can gain great insights into how students learn and grow cognitively as they analyze the sequence of questioning in the classroom using the rich variety of tools provided here. For those interested in promoting life-long learning, this book offers the guidelines for creating classrooms for tomorrow’s needs.”
—Lorna R. Lewis, Superintendent of East Williston UFSD


“The tips, tools, and dialogue in this book will lead preservice and practitioners alike to more effective questioning in their classrooms to empower students to wonder, reason, and develop critical thinking skills.”
—Heather Leah Ryerson Fountain, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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