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"What if you could design questions that engage students at this level in your classroom? What if you could do so without the burden of having to make the subject matter relevant or relatable to every single student? The secret to writing good questions or problems may surprise you. The key, according to Willingham, is to pose questions or problems that can be solved. That means questions or problems that are not too hard and not too easy, but just right. Think Goldilocks."
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do you teach students to write good questions (or how to ask good questions)? This post suggests that good questions have to be at the right level of difficulty and provides three tips that will help you and your students learn how to write good questions (and I suspect how to ask them as well). What are the three tips? 1. Shore up the students' prior knowledge 2. Lighten students' cognitive load 3. Un-situate students' learning Each of these tips is described in more detail int he post and some additional links are also provided. Teaching students how to question, either in writing or verbally, is a critical skill and this post provides some great ideas on ways to help students with the cognitive load so they are supported in the process. You might also want to check out the post Socrative Smackdown which has students learn discussion strategies, some of which are helpful with questions (and that is geared to students in grades 6 - 12). 
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" "Rigor is a fundamental piece of any learning experience. It is also among the most troublesome due to its relativity. Rigorous for whom? And more importantly, how can you “cause” it? Barbara Blackburn, author of “Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word,” shared 5 “myths” concerning rigor, and they are indicative of the common misconceptions: that difficult, dry, academic, sink-or-swim learning is inherently rigorous. Myth #1: Lots of Homework is a Sign of Rigor
Beth Dichter's insight:
How can we add rigor to lesson plans? For 10 strategies check out this post. Five of the strategies are listed below (with more information about them in the post): * Require students to synthesizing multiple sources * Design tasks with multiple steps that build cognitively * Use divergent perspectives * Use divergent media forms The post also provides a great Rigor Rubric that looks at the four levels (as in Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 as found in the new assessment for Race to the Top) as well as two areas, Curriculum and Instruction. Curriculum is divided into Content, Connections, Perspective and Texts/Materials. Instruction is divided into Delivery by Teacher, Depth and Reflection. Consider sharing this rubric in your school and engaging teachers in a discussion of how we can best provide rigor to our students.
David Baker's curator insight,
September 29, 2013 6:48 PM
10 steps and Myths for Rigor will be a really good conversation at PIE. |
how to respond to great questions