Professional development book offering rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high-level thinking, and enhance students' self-concept. The questioning strategies favor in-depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Examples of strategies include personification, what if/hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques, such as a constructing a mind map organizing and visually constructing relationships between ideas. Diagrams, examples of questions, and bulleted lists constitute a majority of the book's content, and the unifying metaphorical shape throughout the text is a triangle. Mathematics, social studies, and reading are specific disciplines for which the text provides concrete examples.

Questioning Makes the Difference

Education & Teaching

Nancy L. Johnson

Schools & Teaching

Pieces of Learning

The Best Teacher "Stuff"

Following the theory there is more thinking and learning in asking questions than in answering questions, Active Questioning: Questioning Still Makes the Difference presents reproducible examples of 5 kinds of questions. The goal of the book is to teach students how to ask differentiated questions about content. Modifying questions is an instructional strategy that differentiates the process in Differentiated Instruction. Differentiated questions can be used with any content and any learning style. The application of differentiated questions carries over to making good decisions, communicating effectively, and solving problems creatively. As a follow-up to the Best Seller Questioning Makes the Difference, which introduces the educator to differentiated questioning, Active Questioning asks the students to use differentiated questions and illustrates each unique kind of question, modeling the active questioning process. The 5 most popular kinds of questions include: Productive Quantity Questions, Concrete to Abstract Compare/Contrast Questions, Motivational Feelings/Opinions/Point of View/Personification Questions, Creative What if . . .? Questions, Critical How come? Questions. Included are: Objectives for Active Questioning, A Self-Check Teacher Checklist, Low Level and High Level Thinking Questions, Bloom s Taxonomy, Brainstorming, Mind Mapping, Preference Questions, Mind Branching, A Wheel of Questions, Spinning Questions, Skinny and Fat Questions, Before and After Questions, Visual Questioning, Questioning Puzzle Pieces, Questions by the Deck.

Active Questioning: Questioning Still Makes the Difference

How can you become a better teacher? Improve your questioning skills! How can kids become better learners? Improve their questioning skills! There's no doubt - questioning is a common human activity that assumes more importance in the new millennium. And good questions should happen any where, any time. Good questions should start a lesson, expand the lesson, and check for comprehension and application. The Quick Question Workbook gives kids practice in learning and using good questioning skills. It utilizes the best way to get creative, high level thinking from students - Nancy gives them creative, high level examples on which to piggyback. Each activity challenges learners to be active questioners, applying their own ideas and opinions as they compose more and more questions. The students will quickly "Catch the Questioning Bug" and discover effective questions are inspiring and encourage participation in thinking. The are vehicles to understanding. They are empowering, building self-confidence through critical and creative thinking skills development. And questions are productive. They challenge ideas and develop new points of view.

The Quick Question Workbook

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Questioning Makes the Difference

The Best Teacher "Stuff"

Active Questioning: Questioning Still Makes the Difference

The Quick Question Workbook