Questions are the engine house of thinking - Edward De Bono
Learning is knowing what to do when we don't know what to do - Guy Claxton
The new curriculum enables us to develop the notion of questioning within the classroom context
Vocab walk - how many words can you see...should be big enough so that you can read them from your desk...should be 300 of them......wow what a challenge...print saturated classroom!!!! Perhaps a good challenge for the syndicates to do...work as buddies to see how many words you have in the classroom. We got some good ideas on how we could perhaps do this. Words on boxes, ranches, nets, having cards at the ready - when it comes up, record it and stick it up on the wall
He talked about dumbing down our language...we need to use the language of thinking...brain research -children think in high order methods than we think that they do. We need to give students the opportunity to think in higher levels...predictive thinkers, aware thinkers, strategic thinkers. reflective thinkers.
episodic
Five types of knowledge....knowledge is formed in the space between the ears.
- Factual
- Conceptual
- Behavioural
- Linguistic
- Episodic
We should never underestimate the power of modelling on our learning and on our learners.
Celebration of the understanding.
We are doing inquiry so that we can lead our students to being independent learners...have to build high quality tasks for our students...that is our challenge! Once we get to this point then we can move them to negotiated tasks......but we need to remember that they need something to model their inquiry on.
Good inquiry moves children to independence...along side this we need to develop our literacy...at the centre of all this is that in order to develop knowledge with questioning.
You cannot engage with text without comprehension with requires us to be questioning.
Postman "The most important and intellectual ability man has yet to develop - the art and science of questioning"
Divergent are the most powerful kind of questions.
Teachers ask 99.89% of the questions in the classroom . Quilt study.(an English study)
The Wonder sheet suggestion...same kind of idea as the wonder wall...
Questions comes from the spark of curiosity
The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.....debatable
Learner questions and teacher questions.....separating the two.....interesting!
Learner questions - requests, rhetoric, inquiry
Learner Questions
Requests Inquiry Rhetoric
Primary Fertile, Essential, Inquiry, Rich, Reflective
layer
high
Intermediary Diagnostic analytical evaluative questions
Low Open closed Fat skinny Key Search
Information Seeking Questions
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