Questioning strategies for teachers

Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.

How many of the hundreds of questions teachers ask a day follow successful questioning techniques? Find 10 ways you can improve questioning in your classom.

Go beyond think-pair-share with ten discussion strategies that will engage your students in meaningful paired and small group discussions.

Over the past 4 years, I have worked on the creation of many Common Core documents including curriculum guides, pacing guides, standard checklists and so on. When you review the language of the standards and look at nouns and the verbs, you will readily notice the close alignment with Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge. In 2001, the new version of Bloom’s Taxonomy was released with Bloom’s six major categories changed from nouns to verbs. The knowledge level was renamed…

Differentiating instruction can often feel like an overwhelming obstacle. It doesn't have to be with these 10 questioning strategies that...

Need help boosting student engagement? These 5 questioning strategies will help teachers ask more effective questions.

How do you keep students engaged during direct instruction? Here are 11 no/low-prep ideas for making lecture fun!

I have recently been looking for new ways to end lessons. Aiming for more of a focus on reflection, I created a poster for my classroom: *Click here for the high-quality, printable PDF version. I …

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.