5 Ways To Help Your Students Become Better Questioners by Warren Berger

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My STEM professor , Dr. Wil Parker  introduced the graphic below to my doctoral class.  He asked us to take a minute to review the graphic and then asked us what resonated with us...

My school district uses Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching for our Teacher Evaluation and Component 3b: Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques always seems to be the area in which teachers score the lowest.   The elements of Component 3b includes: Quality of Questions, Discussion Techniques, and Student Participation.

Inquiry is a basic to science instruction and the desire is that  inquiry will be the basic to all instruction. As many of us can attest, young children have mastered the art of asking questions as it seems they have a never-ending supply of questions about EVERYTHING...What happens with older children?  They very seldom ask questions...

 Warren Berger provides suggestions (and a wonderful graphic) on how to encourage more student questioning.

Thanks Dr. Parker for bringing this graphic (and article) to my attention!


How to Encourage Questioning:

1. Make it Safe
2. Make it "Cool"
3. Make it Fun
4. Make it Rewarding
5. Make it Stick

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/help-students-become-better-questioners-warren-berger