2013 National Conference

2013 National Conference

Inquiring MindsDarlene Pope

Enhancing Critical Thinking

and Questioning as a way to implement

Common Core/Rigor

Overview• What is Inquiry?• Common Core and Depth of Knowledge• Costa’s Habits of Mind• A Leap of Faith!• A Question of Questioning• Costa’s Levels of Thinking • Build mental muscle…allow the

students to do the lifting.

Inquiry is…?Take a moment to consider what inquiry is…

Write your thoughts down… (1 minute)

Share your thoughts with someone near you.

Find a commonality and a differenceWhat did you come up with.www.wordle.net

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www.visuwords.com (uses flash)www.visuwords.com

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Learning with a question in mind...6

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Dominate Language of Standards

The Language of Common Core...HO.1www.wordle.net 7

DOK.. What is the Connection?• Level 1 Recall

• Level 2 Skill/Concept

• Level 3 Strategic Thinking

• Level 4 Extended Thinking

Where DOK and Inquiry meet

• A tool to ensure that teachers are teaching and designing assessments at a level that will promote student achievement…

• Do not focus on the verb…but on the thinking and the complexity of the task.

• Make sure students know what the thinking looks like• Think Aloud!•Metacognition…•PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION of the thinking involved

Where would you place the tasks you assign your students?

Think Pair Share…Level 1 RecallLevel 2 Skill/ConceptLevel 3 Strategic ThinkingLevel 4 Extended Thinking

“He who learns, but does not think, is lost! He who thinks, but does not learn is in great

danger! Confucius

A Thinker’s Roadmap• Habits of Mind (Costa &

Kallick)• What intelligent people do when

they don’t know what to do.• A portable guide for thinkers…

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http://thinkerstoolbox.wikispaces.com/Habits+of+Mind

A Leap of Faith!• A scaffold is not a permanent

structure!

A Question of Questioning

Reflect on a typical class…

• Think of 3 questions you recently asked your students. Write them down.

• If you can recall…also write down three questions your students asked you…

• Finally write down three questions you have for me.

Levels of Thinking HO.4

• Costa’s Level of Thinking

–Level 1-in the text–Level 2- you and the text

or or text and text

–Level 3 mostly you

Now…

• Let’s answer some questions about your questions.

• For each question I ask I want you to consider …

–The answer…–What your brain does before and

after the answer.–How I responded to your answer.

• How can this inform our classroom practice?

Research shows…

• Observations of both elementary and secondary classrooms have shown that teachers significantly overuse knowledge questions. In fact, during the course of an average day, many teachers will ask upward of 300 or more knowledge-based questions.

»www.teachervision.com

Did you know…• The types of questions we use• 60% recall• 20% procedural• 20% require a higher level of thinking

Source: P.E. Blosser (1975) “How to Ask the Right Questions. National Science Teachers’ Association

Asking and Getting Higher Level Questions

• Something to consider…– What level of questions do we ask our students?

– What level of questions are our students asking us?

– How many questions do we ask during a class?

– How many questions do our students ask during a class?• Are these questions procedural, content, or process related?

– How do we determine who asks or answers questions?

– How do we determine whether or not those who do not ask or answer questions are thinking and processing information?

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The Leap!• Increased student engagement

Unexpected Discoveries

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Hello silence my old friend• Think time• Double entry journals-iternal

conversations• Metacognitive Journal

Which is more Important…the journey

or the destination? …the question or the

answer?

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