I also realized that after doing the questioning activity, that it is easy to look at the questions you want to ask and convert them to a higher or lower level question. This is something that helped me a lot this week as I prepared my SPED 433 lesson plan. At first I found myself asking mostly lower level questions... until I thought back to this lesson and remembered to just change the way the question is asked. Rather than asking "what does this word mean", I started to shift to "compare the use of this word and this word".
This week, my goal is to try and reflect on the questions that I ask every day. I want to become aware of the questions I ask and also think about the answer I am looking for. I am hoping that if I practice asking and answering questions now, I will be more comfortable when I am put in front of a class.
I have also included yet another chart of different questions based on their respective levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
If you find any other exciting resources leave a comment so I can check them out :)
Jessica I feel the same way. Questions need to be examined when making a lesson plan to make sure that you are actually asking what you think you are asking. To get the types of responses you want from your students you have to make sure that you are asking the questions the right way. I felt that this weeks lesson will be very helpful when making lesson plans.
ReplyDeleteJess, I really liked this chart. I also saw it here: http://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/strategies/Pages/asking-questions.aspx#.U0CkpSe9KK0
ReplyDeleteI thought this article had a lot of great question info and examples. I also like that the chart has the higher level thinking at the top. Even though the arrow goes from the bottom up, I am immediately drawn to the top. It is as if it's reminding me I don't need to start with lower level thinking. Just like Dr. Horowitz reminded us, we can mix it up.
I agree with the fact that to ask a question you need to know what answer you want the students to give. It seemed so hard when we first started talking about questions. The idea that you have to change the level of thinking and you are not really pushing students with low level questions. However, once I realized that the answer is in many ways more important than the question, writing questions became easier.
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