1. Thursday, February 9, 2012 Questioning Artifact Activity By Teachers
By Students
Artifact Activity
With questioning strategies

2. Lesson Objectives SWBAT
Identify strategies for effective teacher questioning and strengthening student questioning strategies.
Define the Socratic Method
Evaluate their own use of questions during lessons.
Evaluate their use of wait time.
Implement strategies that encourage students to use higher order thinking and develop “thick” and “thin” questions.
Brainstorm possible lesson ideas exploring the concepts of Archeology and Artifacts.

3. About this lesson Method?
Combination of a couple different lessons I’ve done
U.S. History Simulation Book
Archeology Unit
At Risk 6th / 8th grade history

4. Questioning Teacher Questioning Strategies
Student Questioning Strategies

5. Teacher Questioning Strategies
Wait Time
Write Questions into lesson plan.
Open/Closed
Thick/Thin
Use Bloom’s Taxonomy- spend at least half of time on higher levels
– Higher Order Thinking
Questions that ask students to evaluate
Questions that ask students for creative solutions – synthesize

6. Teacher Questioning Each Stage of Lesson Plan
Exploratory/Anticipatory Set
Broad questions
Employ prior understanding
All students can answer
Guide Lesson
Lesson Development
Skills
Main Concepts
Expansion
Applying skills in new contexts
Ask students to evaluate
Evaluate new attitudes towards concept

7. Socratic Method
What have you heard about the Socratic Method before? Any prior experience with it?
Used to examine concepts with no concrete definition.
A line of questioning that gets participants to examine the truth of their own beliefs.
Challenge Assumptions
“Devil’s Advocate”

8. Student Questioning Strategies
Help students differentiate between thick v. thin questions.
Thin: Questions of clarifications
Thick: Questions that require students to extend their thinking beyond the given topic.
Strategies that encourage students to ask questions:
While they read
About their own thinking (metacognition)
While they are completing activities

9. Archeology/Jamestown Lesson
Lesson Objectives:
SWBAT
Identify some information archeologists have learned about Jamestown from artifacts.
Evaluate the important work archeologists do.
Evaluate how difficult it is to be an archeologist.

10. Anticipatory Set/Exploratory Introduction
Reading about Jamestown
Thick v. Thin Questions with Post It Notes
Key Question
Video:

11. Lesson Development Jamestown Artifacts Artifact Analysis
Thick v. Thin Questions with Post It Notes
Discussion Questions

12. Expansion
Mystery Artifacts
Discussion Questions

13. Midterm Evaluations
Turn in and then sign your name to the sheet for your 5 points for the day!