Sharing Successes – Any Grade Level
Many of us have found ways to share our learning about questioning with our colleagues. It’s often helpful to hear what other people have found successful. Please take a minute to share your experiences here so that we my all benefit from them.
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- Sarah Radkowsky replied:
Give One-Get One worked very well as an introductory activity the first day of my classes. Students got to know one another a little bit and found they had some things in common. Kids seem to find it enjoyable and interesting. I personalized each format of the activity for the particular class: French I, Foundations of French 7, Foundations of French 8, and 6th Grade F.L. Exploratory.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:16 pm. Permalink.
- Cindy Peake replied:
I used the Interview Design for an introduction activity. Each of 4 groups had to discuss a topic and then “numbered heads” had to report back to the class. Topics included “Why do you like math?” “why do you NOT like math?”, “why is it important to do HW every night?”, and “how do you study for a quiz/test?”
My 8th grade students are doing very well with the concept of wait time and taking time to think. However, it seems in Math that they are not used to having discussions. I assign some of the higher-level thinking questions from the text for homework and that’s how I get the discussion started and continue using prompting and probing.
As part of my PGEP for this year, I have chosen to delve deeper into higher-level questions and try to script 2-3 for each appropriate content strand. Also, I will plan more opportunities to use the Alternate Response formats for student discussions and enhanced learning!
September 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm. Permalink.
- mickey peters replied:
Instead of teaching how to use the camera, then photoshop, I began the year by having students interview each other. They then wrote up the interview, took a picture of the person and then used the InDesign program to bring it all together. They were able to “use me as a source” or they could dig out the information for themselves.
The results were that students had fun, I got information on each student and they “touched”each of the programs they needed to learn.October 22nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm. Permalink.
- Terri Vernon replied:
Using the Promethean Board, I can use signal response to “poll” the class. I can ask questions, and EVERY student responds. I can get instant feedback, and all students get time to think. I don’t push the “vote” button until I give Wait Time One. Then, the answers show up on the board, but I wait before I share the correct answer and rational. Sometimes, when there are two answers that get a lot of the same votes, I know I can start a discussion and let the students talk and piggy back off of each other.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm. Permalink.
- Christen Tulli replied:
I enjoy using the CPS system, which is a resource my school has that involves remote clickers students use to “buzz in” when I post questions on the overhead. The students enjoy using new technology (they love to compete about who gets to buzz in first!)
November 4th, 2008 at 9:41 am. Permalink.
- Linda Korpics replied:
We presented an overview to our faculty which included wait time 1 and 2, norms, blooms taxonomy, and examples of upper level questions. We went back into small groups and did the Bloom’s question activity and synectics. We had fun.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:12 pm. Permalink.