43. QUESTION FORMULATION TECHNIQUE (Questioning, Discussion, Collaboration, Feedback)
Description: Students learn to ask better questions so that they can be better thinkers.
Application: Use for all subjects.
Process: Have a topic in mind and consider the focus statement from which all questions will spring (ex. Women should serve in combat units). Put students into small groups and tell them to write down questions based on the focus statement. Warn students to create questions only and to avoid trying to answer the statement, give an opinion, or judge any of the questions produced by the group. At a specified time, tell students to stop creating questions and to start revising them by narrowing or expanding the scope. Challenge students to reformulate their close-ended questions into open-ended ones and vice versa. Instruct groups to prioritize their questions to the top three. Based on the initial activity, decide how students proceed. (Answering their own group questions, sending problems to other groups, or dividing up questions as individual homework are three popular choices.) Follow up with a reflection piece that includes not only answers but the process of thinking in terms of questions
Description: Students learn to ask better questions so that they can be better thinkers.
Application: Use for all subjects.
Process: Have a topic in mind and consider the focus statement from which all questions will spring (ex. Women should serve in combat units). Put students into small groups and tell them to write down questions based on the focus statement. Warn students to create questions only and to avoid trying to answer the statement, give an opinion, or judge any of the questions produced by the group. At a specified time, tell students to stop creating questions and to start revising them by narrowing or expanding the scope. Challenge students to reformulate their close-ended questions into open-ended ones and vice versa. Instruct groups to prioritize their questions to the top three. Based on the initial activity, decide how students proceed. (Answering their own group questions, sending problems to other groups, or dividing up questions as individual homework are three popular choices.) Follow up with a reflection piece that includes not only answers but the process of thinking in terms of questions
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