Do Now 9/27: • Get your journal (BUT LEAVE YOUR WRITING BINDER – WE ARE NOT USING IT TODAY ) • Read the poem on the following slide and answer the question in your journal.
Dec 22, 2015
Do Now 9/27:• Get your journal (BUT LEAVE YOUR
WRITING BINDER – WE ARE NOT USING IT TODAY)
• Read the poem on the following slide and answer the question in your journal.
“There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, andthree-story intellects with skylights.All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts areone-story men.Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the laborof fact collectors as their own.Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict - their bestillumination comes fromabove the skylight.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
•Do you aspire to be a one-story, two-story, or three-story person? Why?
Costa’s Levels of Costa’s Levels of QuestioningQuestioning
Costa’s Levels of Costa’s Levels of QuestioningQuestioning
One who asks a question is a fool for One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a five minutes; one who does not ask a
question remains a fool forever.question remains a fool forever. Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb
Teaching Costa’s Three Levels
• Students will learn the concept of Higher Order Thinking
• Students will practice formulating questions of increasing complexity
• Students will reflect on how questioning skills can help them learn
Level OneKnowledge Comprehension
Define Restate
Repeat Label
List Identify
Describe Summarize
Recall Paraphrase
Level 1 Questions…
• Level 1 is like the ground floor- the foundation of a building- important information you need to have, such as definitions, numbers, formulas.– The answers can be found in the text or other
sources– Very concrete and pertains to the text– Asks for facts about what has been heard or
read– Information is recalled in the exact
manner/form it was heard
Level TwoApplication Analysis
Use Analyze
Practice Differentiate
Diagram Revise
Contrast Experiment
Construct Generate
Level 2 Questions…• The answer can be inferred from the text• Although more abstract than a Level 1
question, it deals only with the text• Information can be broken down in parts• Involves examining in detail, analyzing
motives or causes, making inferences, finding information to support generalizations or decision making
• Questions combine information in a new way
Level ThreeSynthesis Evaluation
Combine Debate
Organize Conclude
Judge Interpret
Predict Justify
Measure Argue
Level 3 Questions…• The answer goes beyond the text• Is abstract and does not pertain to the text• Ask that judgments be made from
information• Gives opinions about issues, judges the
validity of ideas or other products and justifies opinions and ideas
• Provoke discussion of abstract ideas or issues