Meeting Pattern

Online/Google Classroom

Description

Effective questions do more than check whether students know an answer. Well-designed questions help students explain their thinking, make connections, solve problems, participate in discussions, and take greater ownership of their learning and behaviors.
   
Explore the characteristics of effective classroom questions and examine how question type, cognitive demand, wording, sequencing, wait time, and follow-up prompts influence student responses and improve behaviors.

Learn how to analyze questions from instruction, revise them to promote deeper thinking, and develop strategies for involving students who may need additional processing time, communication support, or alternative ways to respond.
   
Complete the course with a practical questioning plan that can be implemented in your classroom.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

You will:

• Distinguish among questions used to check recall, assess understanding, promote reasoning, encourage reflection, and extend classroom discussion.
• Analyze the clarity, purpose, accessibility, and cognitive demand of questions used in your current instructional practice.
• Develop open-ended, probing, clarifying, and follow-up questions that encourage students to explain and support their thinking.
• Construct purposeful question sequences that move students from prior knowledge toward deeper understanding and application.
• Apply wait time, prompting, scaffolding, and equitable participation strategies to increase the quality and quantity of student responses.
• Adapt questions and response formats for students with different academic, language, communication, and processing needs.
• Implement and evaluate a classroom questioning plan and identify specific improvements for future instruction.