7 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions. Bring TeachThought Professional Development To Your School! 7 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions by Terry Heick Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
The latter is a topic for another day, but the former is why we’re here. 8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions 1. The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy is a template for critical thinking that frames cognition across six categories. It imagines any learning product, goal, or objective as a “thing,” then suggests different ways to think about said “thing”–mitosis, a math formula, an historical figure, a poem, a poet, a computer coding language, a political concept, a literary device, etc. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
A literary device–a metaphor example, is usually studied in isolation. Self--Identity what you do and don’t understand about the metaphor The upside? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 18 more ways to introduce your lesson topic. This term I’ve tried out a few different ways to introduce a lesson. These ones have worked well. They might be worth reading if you’ve exhausted my previous list! Song lyric gap fill Example: 3rd conditional, regrets Do a short gap fill on part of a song related to your topic. Regrets, I’ve had a few… (1.19 – 1.30) Topic: Geography Sporcle is full of great quizzes in various formats. Don’t tell football mad students that there are an abundance of Premier League quizzes on the site – unless you’re in need of a highly motivational end of class reward!
A short performance – miming Example topic: past perfect Students watch a teacher do a short mime at the front of class and speculate about what happened. A short performance – character acting Topic: any book/story/news article involving a character Tell students that you will be in role as a character from the story they will read today. Recent examples I was a builder who had won the lottery Sights and Sounds Example topic: sports Ask them: Mind maps. 30 Habits Of Highly Effective Teachers. Editor’s Note: We often look at the qualities and characteristics of good teaching and learning, including the recent following pieces: How A Good Teacher Becomes Great What You Owe Your Students Ten Secrets To Surviving As A Teacher The Characteristics Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment How To Be A Mediocre Teacher 25 Things Successful Teachers Do Differently by Julie DuNeen, Sketch Note Via Janet Hamilton If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series.
What students take away from a successful education usually centers on a personal connection with a teacher who instilled passion and inspiration for their subject. Are teachers reaching their students? 1. How do you know if you are driving the right way when you are traveling somewhere new? 2. We can’t all be blessed with “epic” workdays all the time. 3. 4. 5. 6. This concept is similar for parents as well. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. LearningApps - interactive and multimedia learning blocks. 25798c9656b0a8a67193b2dba1b827551264687107. H. Pitler, E. R. Hubbell, M. Kuhn – Efektywne wykorzystanie nowych technologii na lekcjach by Fundacja Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej. Google for Education.
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