This book explores the relationship between questioning and formative feedback in K-12 classrooms and spotlights dialogue as the bridge connecting the two.
Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them!
When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today.
How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling autho...
When planned and executed in a strategic manner, classroom questioning is an effective way to engage all learners in thinking and speaking related to learning goals. This guide will help teachersConnect students to learning goalsHold all students accountable for respondingScaffold and support student thinkingEncourage student questions and self-assessmentUse student responses as feedback to inform teaching and learningThe guide's many tips and...
This new edition of the bestseller expands on the original in consideration of new research, change in the educational landscape and the authors' own learning from teachers.
What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions? That's what Jackie Acree Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes ask as they begin a passionate exploration of questioning as the beating heart of thoughtful discussions. Questioning and discussion are important components of classroom instruction that work in tandem to push learning forward and move students from passive participants to active meaning-makers. Walsh and Sattes arg...
A leader's job is not to have all of the right answers, but to ask the right questions. Not only does this book address self-inquiry for school leaders, it offers tools and learning support for leaders committed to improving and refining their inquiry-based leadership' - Betty Burks, Deputy Superintendent, San Antonio ISD, TX, USA
'This is an invaluable handbook for those eager to listen differently to people, enter into dialogue about sensit...