1. QUESTIONING CATEGORIES (Questioning, Discussion)
Description: This strategy encourages students to recognize levels of questions and produce high quality questions, which helps them to be autonomous thinkers.
Application: Use Questioning Categories to enhance the quality of questions that students produce.
Process: Assign students a reading. After students complete reading task, ask them to create individually three to five questions. Review Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Addendum B). Place students in groups of three and direct them to identify the level of Bloom’s for each question. Challenge students to revise questions until they have two of each level of Bloom’s. Instruct each group to pass its final questions to the group to its right, directing the groups to verify the level of questions. Direct all groups to return papers, and as a class, discuss any discrepancies. Next, instruct each group to pass its questions to the left for that group to answer. Conclude the activity with a discussion. Addendum B below:
Description: This strategy encourages students to recognize levels of questions and produce high quality questions, which helps them to be autonomous thinkers.
Application: Use Questioning Categories to enhance the quality of questions that students produce.
Process: Assign students a reading. After students complete reading task, ask them to create individually three to five questions. Review Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Addendum B). Place students in groups of three and direct them to identify the level of Bloom’s for each question. Challenge students to revise questions until they have two of each level of Bloom’s. Instruct each group to pass its final questions to the group to its right, directing the groups to verify the level of questions. Direct all groups to return papers, and as a class, discuss any discrepancies. Next, instruct each group to pass its questions to the left for that group to answer. Conclude the activity with a discussion. Addendum B below:
Reference and/or for more information:
1. Questioning Categories
WCPSS AG Program (2009). Toolbox for Planning Rigorous Instruction.
1. Questioning Categories
WCPSS AG Program (2009). Toolbox for Planning Rigorous Instruction.