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Questioning

Questioning. How involved should students be in questioning?. Every question and answer is a relationship. In school, most questions are about content. They establish a relationship between the teacher, the student, and the content. Teacher. Student. Content.

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Questioning

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  1. Questioning How involved should students be in questioning?

  2. Every question and answer is a relationship. In school, most questions are about content. They establish a relationship between the teacher, the student, and the content. Teacher Student Content

  3. “Every question and answer are part of a special form of discourse called dialogue. When teachers ask questions, they are not simply seeking answers, they are using dialogue to teach students how to find answers. When we examine Socratic dialogues, their purpose springs out at us with amazing force and clarity. Socrates used the dialogue, not to find answers, but to teach his students how to think.” - Strong, Hanson, and Silver

  4. According to Strong, Silver, and Hanson, most teachers supply the questions and expect students to give the answers. This rigid division of labor has several negative consequences, one of which is to almost guarantee that the process of thinking will not be explicitly taught.

  5. Two ways to help students develop answers are by using quality questions in addition to the following strategies: • QUEST • Q-SPACE

  6. QUEST Components: Q Question all the students. U Understand the thinking required. E Establish a gap between asking and answering. S Search for answers in notes or pictures. T Talk in small groups.

  7. Q-SPACE Components: Q Question S Silence and Waiting Time P Probing A Accepting C Clarifying and Correcting E Elaborating and Extending * For more information on Q-SPACE, see page 222 of TST.

  8. Assignments: • For both QUEST and Q-SPACE, consider how you incorporate each of these components in your classroom. If you do not currently use one component, find one idea you could use. Be prepared to share these ideas in class next week. • Read the article from this website: http://www.hepg.org/hel/printarticle/507 • Note one meaningful statement from the reading to share next week.

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