1. Formative Assessment
Questioning

2. Inviting Student Engagement with Questions 10/05 Red Orbit
Questioning Guides
Encourage dialogue in your classroom
Select an appropriate level of question based on the students need
Avoid trick questions
Use wait time after a question to keep all involved/don’t use a student name in the question
Caveat…Occasionally calling on a student prior to asking the question is a technique that can be used to redirect an inattentive student
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3. Inviting Student Engagement with Questions 10/05 Red Orbit
Questioning Guides
Repeat answers only when other students have not heard them; repeating wastes time and becomes a crutch.
Questions (many of them) should be sufficiently open to accommodate diverse interests and learning styles
Don’t forget to pose questions toward the end of the teaching session to identify specific areas for additional learning opportunities
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4. Inviting Student Engagement with Questions 10/05
Questioning Guides
Handle incomplete answers by reinforcing what is correct and then asking probing questions.
Use pre-planned and emerging questions.
So, what are those pre-planned questions for math and problem solving?
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5. Pre-planned Questions
1. How do you know that?
2. How did you do that?
3. Can you tell me more?
4. Why do you think this?
5. Is there another way to do the problem?
6. How did drawing the picture make it less complicated/help?
7. What did you do first/What do you think you should do first?
8. What strategies are you using or going to use?
9. Could you go to another group or to a partner and explain to them what you did? Or, would you explain to….etc.
10. What do you think “insert child’s name” was thinking as she worked this problem?
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6. Try Not to Ask How many of you understood that? Everybody see that?
You want me to go over that again?
Did I go too fast for you?
Right?
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