How can quality questioning transform classrooms

What Is the Purpose of Teacher Feedback? How… Expand. Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Results Citations. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. Questioning: a path to student learning experience.

Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to investigate connections between questioning, learning, achievement and conscious knowledge and beliefs held by tutors and how these are applied in a … Expand. Using questions that check for understanding at critical junctures…helps a teacher determine whether to move forward or reteach. The choice between sticking with a student and requiring a response, or giving students a free pass, reflects our beliefs: Do we think all students, with appropriate assistance, can respond correctly?

All types of feedback should be used sparingly and carefully. Although the focus is on creating and effectively using quality questions, there are great reminders about classroom culture, teacher expectations, teacher modeling, success criteria, checks for understanding, response structures, and feedback.

There are also free videos showing the strategies in action. Every classroom teacher, novice or veteran, needs to learn or be reminded of these practices and how they can transform their classrooms. The book can be used as a self-paced professional read or would be very conducive to a shared professional reading in a Professional Learning Community PLC. Energize Your Classroom with Quality Questions. She began teaching in and has taught second grade, fifth grade and sixth grade. She holds bachelor, master and educational specialist degrees from Jacksonville State University and is a member of the Alabama Instructional Partners Network.

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Learn how your comment data is processed. Grasping the Radical Origins of Self-Care. Follow Walsh at Question2Think and contact her at walshja aol. Beth Dankert Sattes consults through her business, Enthused Learning, primarily in the area of effective questioning in K—12 classrooms. She works with clients and staff of service centers, districts, schools, and departments of education throughout the eastern and southern part of the United States, frequently facilitating adult learning and returning in person or via the Internet for follow-up.

Beth began her work in education as an elementary special education teacher and then as a parent educator of preschool children with behavior disorders. She holds a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and a master's in early childhood special education from Peabody College.

Her true love is to work with adult learners, be they teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, or parents. Her primary goal has always been to translate research-based practice into understandable and usable practice in an engaging and motivating way.

She sometimes directly facilitates adult learning and sometimes trains teacher-leaders to facilitate the learning of colleagues. Fostering Student Voice Print Book.