learning@school Shaping teaching and learning in the 21st century Ko te whenu hou te tau learning@schoo l Rotorua New Zealand February 2008
Mar 30, 2015
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Shaping teaching and learning in the 21st century Ko te whenu hou te tauKo te whenu hou te tau
learning@school learning@school Rotorua New Zealand February 2008
Questioning
Why is questioning important?
A learner is by nature a questioner
A questioner is by nature a learner.
A thinker is a questioner.
A thinker is a learner
Questioning is central to thinking
and learning
“All our knowledge results from questions, which is
another way of saying that questioning is our most
important intellectual tool.”
Neil Postman (P 140)
De Bono
“Questions are the engine house of
thinking.”
Given that questioning is so important…..
What are 3 things that you would like to know about questioning that would help you to
improve your student’s questioning skills?
Write 3 questions about developing student questioning skills.
Learner Questions
Requests RhetoricInquiry
Fertile, Essential, Inquiry, Rich, Reflective
Open, Closed, Fat, Skinny, Rich, Poor, Key.
Fact finding, Evaluative, Daignostic, Hypothetical
What are the core skills of an effective questioner?
• Identify the need or problem• Identify the relevant contextual vocabulary• Ask a range of relevant questions
• Take them to a variety of appropriate sources
• Persist, editing questions as necessary, until they acquire the needed information
Many other associated skills
But they are primarily Literacy, thinking or Information skills. Eg….
Reading Comprehension
Speaking Listening
Location Skimming Scanning
What is a good question?
• It is relevant
• Can be taken to intelligent and non-intelligent sources
• Gets you the information that is needed
Intelligent
Non- intelligent
Poor questions
Where can I find it?
What skills do I need?
How do I get there?What are the issues with these questions that
would classify them as poor questions?
QuESTioning Rubric
As I go through the rubric, work out what stage your
questions fit into.
Stage Questioning Rubric
7 Used multiple Question words in a probing question when interviewing an ‘expert’
6 Used relevant synonyms to edit key questions
5 Used the Seven Servants and relevant key words and phrases to create key questions.
4 Used the Seven Servants and relevant key words to create key questions.(who what when where how why which)
3 Asked a relevant yes/no/maybe question (is can does could may etc)
2 Any non-relevant question (does not contain contextual key words or phrases)
1 Created statements rather than questions (or a nul response)
7 Servants:
This is NOT a rubric of question typesIt is a rubric built round a range of skills involved in creating Relevant QuestionsAnd it relates to closely to the definition
of an effective questioner
Evidence of Success
thinklab.typepad.com/.../index.html
If you're so smart, why are you
asking me to give you the answers?
thinklab.typepad.com/.../index.html
More importantly, are
you teaching me how to ask
great questions?
Primary Questionsor
Primary Tasks
Learner Questions
Requests RhetoricInquiry
Fertile, Essential, Inquiry, Rich, Reflective
Open, Closed, Fat, Skinny, Rich, Poor, Key.
Fact finding, Evaluative, Daignostic, Hypothetical
As learners we can ask ourselves primary layer questions
Inquiry
Primary Layer questions
Secondary Layer
OR
We can pose ourselves learning tasks
As teachers we can pose primary layer questions
Inquiry
Primary Layer questions
Secondary Layer
OR
We can pose learning tasks
As learners and teachers we have to be aware that primary questions can very easily lead to low level information based learning.
What is Inquiry Learning?
What is the difference between a value and a belief?
As teachers and learners we need to be aware that posing learning as a task is
still not the magic answer, because poorly worded/structured tasks will still lead to low level information
based learning.
Question:How could we build a land-yacht that would be competitive with the blokart for $500
Task:Working to a budget of $500 build a land-yacht that would be competitive with the blokart
Question: How do people catch yellow-fin tuna?
Task: By the end of the coming season we want to have caught my first yellow-fin from our own boat
As teachers we need to scaffold our students towards success by
• including contextual key words and phrases in task or question wording
• Modelling how to break down complex questions or tasks into component parts
Internet searching
What is Hyperlexia?
What is the definition of Hyperlexia?
Key words: definition hyperlexia
What is the definition of Hyperlexia?
Key words: definition hyperlexia
What is the definition of hyperlexia?
Key phrase: definition hyperlexia
Searching and task wordingHyperlexia is a rare syndrome that impacts
severely on student learning abilities. Research the definition of hyperlexia, its major and minor characteristics and construct a simple set of questions that teachers could use in a parent interview to help ascertain if a child may or may not need specialist assessment and intervention for hyperlexia