Professional DevelopmentScience Education October 2013

What am I?

Learning Goals

Success Criteria

• Identify a framework for inquiry-based instruction

• Differentiate teacher and student roles in questioning

• Investigate a strategy to develop students’ questioning skills

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Engage

Explore

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Evaluate

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• Take greater ownership of their learning

• Deepen comprehension

• Make connections and discoveries on their own

Students who know how to ask their own questions…

Harvard Graduate School of Education 2011

Engagement through Questioning

Step 1: Teacher designs a Question Focus

Step 2: Student produce Questions

Step 3: Student strengthens Questions

Step 4: Student Prioritizes Questions

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Step 1: Teacher Designs a Question Focus

Engage through

Discrepancy

Step 2: Student Produces Questions

Guidelines:• Write as many thoughts and questions as

you can

• Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions

• Turn any statements into questions

Step 3: Student Strengthens Questions

Who is running for class president ?

Closed-Ended Open-EndedWhat do you think of the candidates in the class election?

Higher ComplexityWhat does each candidate support for the spring event?

Text-SupportedResponse must include evidence from a source of text.

Step 3: Student Strengthens Questions

Is one liquid heavier than the other?

Closed-Ended Open-EndedHow can liquids of different densities mix?

Higher ComplexityHow does the molecular geometry of the liquids affect the volume of the solution?

Response must include evidence from a source of text.

Text-Supported

Step 4: Student Prioritizes Questions

Divergent thinking to

Convergent thinking

Take AWAY

Students need to learn the practice of questioning because too often they accept what they are told, without going any further.

Best Practices

How does it look in your classroom?

Professional Learning Communities

PLC Roles

• Facilitator• Timekeeper• Recorder

PLC Action Plan

1 time only

Recorder

Monthly

Let’s take a break…

Professional Learning Communities