Chapter 1: What is Quality Questioning?
Quality Questioning is an important aspect of teaching and learning.The cycle of questioning is composed of 6Ps: Prepare, Present, Prompt, Process, and Polish with the final 'P', "Partner", at the center of this cycle. Signifying that the most important part of the cycle of questioning is "Partner". Educators should partner with their students throughout each step of the cycle to ensure that they are promoting student understanding of the content being taught. I will commit to this cycle of questioning for my future classroom by understanding the importance of the teacher-student partnership. I will always be not only a teacher to my students, but also a partner to each of my students to promote the most positive and effective learning environment. I will ensure that my students understand that my role as their teacher is to learn alongside them and to help them better understand the content.
Chapter 2: What are the Distinguishing Features of Quality Questioning?
Quality Questions are tools that can be used to ensure that all students are equally engaged in the learning process. Quality questions take dedication and commitment to formulate, but provides students the best opportunity to learn. Using the rubric located on Page 24 of the textbook allows educators to ensure that they are formulating effective questions by focusing on the important aspects of quality questions: the purpose, content focus, cognitive level, and wording and syntax. In my future classroom, I will use this rubric as I am preparing for my lessons. I will use the rubric as a guide to ensure that my students' learning is my main focus.
Chapter 3: How Can Teachers Engage All Students in Thinking and Responding?
Teachers can engage all students in thinking and responding by using quality questions to encourage thinking and seeking responses from each individual student rather than from the classroom as a whole. As a future teacher, I would like to incorporate signaled responses in my classrooms to encourage all of my students to participate in responses rather than just the students who are most comfortable speaking in the classroom. Using Kahoot! would also be a great way to promote responding from all students because it gives the students an opportunity to think and respond while using the same application. Kahoot! can also be a great assessment tool for educators to use to evaluate student knowledge of the content.
Chapter 4: How Can Teachers Assist Students in Making Connections?
Teachers can assist students in making connections when responding or thinking by giving them prompts, when necessary, and by using wait time or "think time" to best promote understanding of the content. Establishing the norms on the poster in a classroom allows students to better use wait time in the classroom. In my future classroom, I would set these norms in my own teaching by sharing with my students how we are going to use wait time as think time and how they will practice thinking during those times. I believe that it would be beneficial because students would know the types of questions to consider while we are between topics or lessons.
Chapter 5: How Can Teachers Use Feedback to Deepen Student Thinking and Learning?
Feedback is key to deepening student thinking and learning. Educators should ensure they are engaging in effective feedback to further student understanding of the content. The most challenging response in my future classroom will likely be the student whose response reveals that they are on course in his or her learning. I feel that it would be most difficult to deepen those students' thinking and learning because there are not gaps that the teacher could work with them to fill. It seems that these students are often the ones that are overlooked in the classroom because there are other students who are in need of assistance and feedback to help fill the gaps or discrepancies in their knowledge.
Part 2- Quality Questioning Miro Board
Miro Board- Quality Questioning
Miro allowed me to create an interactive, online "whiteboard" to document my thoughts, ideas, and questions while going through the chapter. In the future, I feel that this application could be very useful to use with students to have them further their knowledge on different topics. By using Miro, students can document their ideas and thoughts and can keep these interactive whiteboards to look back on later. I used Miro to scaffold my own learning throughout the readings by documenting key points throughout the reading that I wanted to remember. This helped me better understand the content that I was reading and ensured that I would be able to look back on key ideas from the readings.
Part 3- Quality Questioning and Teaching Math Using Number Talks
Part 4- 21st Century Tool Review
Quizlet is a great 21st Century Tool to use in the classroom that promotes deeper learning and understanding. Quizlet has many great features that are very beneficial while studying or completing assignments. Quizlet can be used to create flashcards, quizzes, or play games that can gauge student understanding. Quizlet requires little technology knowledge because it is easy to use and understand. Those with a beginner level of technology knowledge could easily navigate quizlet and utilize their features. Quizlet is a useful tool to use to promote Quality Questioning because educators can formulate their own questions to present before the class. Students can then participate in an educational game that allows educators to see their responses and use these as an assessment tool. I learned about Quizlet through Twitter.
Pear Deck is another 21st Century Tool that helps teachers ensure they are asking their students quality questions. Pear Deck is an online presentation tool that teachers can use to formulate interactive presentations that their students can view simultaneously on their own devices and respond to. This allows teachers to view student responses in real time and determine what areas students are understanding and what content should be revisited. Teachers can create their own presentations while including quality questions for students to respond to. Teacher can ensure that their questions are those that will promote student engagement and thinking. I learned about Pear Deck while looking through Pinterest at useful classroom tools.
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