Full Description
Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them!
When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today.
How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include:
• Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms
• Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry
• Student questioning models for distance learning
By instilling students with the desire and ability to become better questioners, teachers will see more actively engaged students, more collaboration, and an increase in overall student motivation for learning and achievement.
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF VIDEOS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1. STUDENT QUESTIONING—TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL
Why Is Student Question-Asking Important? Making the Case
Why Should Teachers Incorporate Student Questions Into Their Instruction? Filling a Void
What Propels Student Questioners? The Skill, the Will, and the Thrill
How Can We Develop Students' Skill and Will to Ask Questions in Class? About This Book
CHAPTER 2. TEACHERS AS ACTIVATORS—COMMITTING TO CHANGE, CREATING THE CULTURE
How Can Teachers Motivate Students? Creating the Classroom Culture
How Should Teachers Proceed? Setting Explicit Expectations
How Can Teachers Transform Learning? A Process to Build Capacity
CHAPTER 3. SELF-QUESTIONS—MONITORING LEARNING AND MAKING MEANING
Monitoring Learning—Developing Student Capacity to Ask Questions to Self-Regulate
Making Meaning—Developing Student Capacity to Ask Self-Questions to Build Understanding
CHAPTER 4. ACADEMIC QUESTIONS—CLARIFYING AND DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING
Building a Knowledge Base—Developing Student Capacity to Ask Academic Questions
CHAPTER 5. EXPLORATORY QUESTIONS—EXPRESSING WONDERINGS AND CURIOSITIES
Nurturing Curiosity—Developing Student Capacity to Ask Exploratory Questions
CHAPTER 6. DIALOGIC QUESTIONS—CLARIFYING AND DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING
Broadening Perspectives—Developing Student Capacity to Ask Dialogic Questions
CHAPTER 7. THE END IN MIND—INCREASED AGENCY WITHIN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Beyond Scaffolding—Toward a Holistic Approach
Realizing the Potential—In School and Beyond
REFERENCES
INDEX
