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Updated Edition of Bestseller
Empowering Students as Questioners
Skills, Strategies, and Structures to Realize the Potential of Every Learner
First Edition
- Jackie Acree Walsh - Educational Consultant, Montgomery, AL
Foreword by Jim Knight
February 2021 | 168 pages | Corwin
Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them!
When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today.
How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include:
• Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms
• Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry
• Student questioning models for distance learning
By instilling students with the desire and ability to become better questioners, teachers will see more actively engaged students, more collaboration, and an increase in overall student motivation for learning and achievement.
When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today.
How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include:
• Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms
• Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry
• Student questioning models for distance learning
By instilling students with the desire and ability to become better questioners, teachers will see more actively engaged students, more collaboration, and an increase in overall student motivation for learning and achievement.
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF VIDEOS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHAPTER 1. STUDENT QUESTIONING—TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL
CHAPTER 2. TEACHERS AS ACTIVATORS—COMMITTING TO CHANGE, CREATING THE CULTURE
CHAPTER 3. SELF-QUESTIONS—MONITORING LEARNING AND MAKING MEANING
CHAPTER 4. ACADEMIC QUESTIONS—CLARIFYING AND DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER 5. EXPLORATORY QUESTIONS—EXPRESSING WONDERINGS AND CURIOSITIES
CHAPTER 6. DIALOGIC QUESTIONS—CLARIFYING AND DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER 7. THE END IN MIND—INCREASED AGENCY WITHIN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
REFERENCES
INDEX