Next Steps
“What Do We Do with All These Questions?”
--INSERT EXPECTATIONS AND HOW TO RESEARCH--Teach Explicitly, another skill that needs to be developed with intentionality.
Practice. With students have all of their questions, frustration could quickly set in if this process is not guided.
Coach.
Guide.
Ask questions of how the students have researched in other classes to connect their learning.
Patience.
Love.
“The most useful thing I learned from this class was to learn to ask questions to get better understanding.”
Sample Uses of Student Questions Beginning of Unit/ Class
• In a do-now activity, students ask questions relevant to previous day’s work or upcoming work or any topic to inform class discussion.
• Students generate questions to use as guides for reading or thinking about a new assignment, subject, or topic before being formally introduced to it.
• Students use questions to identify specific topics for research papers, essays, experiments, and projects.
• Teacher uses student questions to assess prior knowledge and identify gaps in information and understanding.
• Teacher uses student questions to shape or refine lesson plans for the next day or entire unit.
• Student questions guide Socratic seminar content.
• Teacher posts student questions for them to see as unit progresses.
Middle of Class
• Students generate questions to shape their own homework assignments.
• Questions provide examples for teachers to review in prep for next stage of unit.
• Students use questions to prepare for tests.
• Questions help teacher assess what kinds of issues students are addressing and what they are not and what students are and are not understanding or learning.
• Teacher references student questions from beginning of unit to show how they are being answered through student work.
• Questions can guide moot court exercises in which students in the role of judges prepare questions to ask of lawyers and students as lawyers try to predict questions they will hear from opposing counsel and judge.
• Students prepare questions for job exploration.
End of Unit/ Class
• In a do-now activity at end of class, students ask questions relevant to the class just concluded or next day’s work or upcoming work or any topic.
• Student questions help them prepare final reports, PowerPoint presentations, and write papers.
• Students use questions to prepare for interviewing outside experts.
• Questions aid in final assessment and review of student learning.
• Students and teacher set new research agenda for the next unit.
• Teacher references student questions from beginning of unit to show how they have been answered through student work and works with students to identify questions that still need answer.
“What Do We Do with All These Questions?”
--INSERT EXPECTATIONS AND HOW TO RESEARCH--Teach Explicitly, another skill that needs to be developed with intentionality.
Practice. With students have all of their questions, frustration could quickly set in if this process is not guided.
Coach.
Guide.
Ask questions of how the students have researched in other classes to connect their learning.
Patience.
Love.
“The most useful thing I learned from this class was to learn to ask questions to get better understanding.”
Sample Uses of Student Questions Beginning of Unit/ Class
• In a do-now activity, students ask questions relevant to previous day’s work or upcoming work or any topic to inform class discussion.
• Students generate questions to use as guides for reading or thinking about a new assignment, subject, or topic before being formally introduced to it.
• Students use questions to identify specific topics for research papers, essays, experiments, and projects.
• Teacher uses student questions to assess prior knowledge and identify gaps in information and understanding.
• Teacher uses student questions to shape or refine lesson plans for the next day or entire unit.
• Student questions guide Socratic seminar content.
• Teacher posts student questions for them to see as unit progresses.
Middle of Class
• Students generate questions to shape their own homework assignments.
• Questions provide examples for teachers to review in prep for next stage of unit.
• Students use questions to prepare for tests.
• Questions help teacher assess what kinds of issues students are addressing and what they are not and what students are and are not understanding or learning.
• Teacher references student questions from beginning of unit to show how they are being answered through student work.
• Questions can guide moot court exercises in which students in the role of judges prepare questions to ask of lawyers and students as lawyers try to predict questions they will hear from opposing counsel and judge.
• Students prepare questions for job exploration.
End of Unit/ Class
• In a do-now activity at end of class, students ask questions relevant to the class just concluded or next day’s work or upcoming work or any topic.
• Student questions help them prepare final reports, PowerPoint presentations, and write papers.
• Students use questions to prepare for interviewing outside experts.
• Questions aid in final assessment and review of student learning.
• Students and teacher set new research agenda for the next unit.
• Teacher references student questions from beginning of unit to show how they have been answered through student work and works with students to identify questions that still need answer.