Lesson 6.2: Effective Questioning and Effective Feedback

Focus: Understand how to write questions at three congnitive levels.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

• What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
• How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Readings

NOTE: To print the linked documents, do the following:

• Put your mouse on the document and right click. You will see a window that asks you where you want to download the document.
• Determine where you want to save the document.
• After saving the document, open and print it in MS Word.

1. Read Effective Questioning Strategies and Effective Feedback.
2. Read On Solid Ground (p. 165).
3. As you read the selections, makes notes about important concepts you learned or questions you have and bring them to the Collaboration Group meeting to share.
4. Read Questioning at Various Levels. Bring the completed chart to the Collaboration Group meeting to discuss.

3. Classroom Application

• Select a book or other reading material to use for a read aloud, shared reading, or small group guided reading. Plan and teach a reading lesson and include questions for the students at the literal, inferential, and applied level.
• Bring the reading lesson, including one or more questions at the various levels, to the Collaboration Group meeting.

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:
   
   
   • Sharing reflection journal entries.
   • Sharing notes of important concepts and questions from Effective Questioning Strategies and Effective Feedback and On Solid Ground (p. 165).
   • Discussing the Questioning at Various Levels chart and collaborating on what level to assign each of the questions.
   • Sharing the lessons taught, including the questions asked at the various levels.
   • Discussing why it is important to ask questions at all three cognitive levels.
     
     
2. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Email a copy of the reading lesson to the instructor. Label the lesson: Reading Lesson with Questions at the Literal, Inferential, and Applied Level. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_reading_lesson.
2. The recorder emails the Collaboration Group notes to the instructor and places a copy in the Collaboration Group Notebook.
3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.