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Engaging Students

Engaging Students. Incorporating Depth, Complexity, and Questioning Strategies into the classroom. Tools to Engage Learners. Effective questioning techniques Classroom strategies that guide discussions Socratic Seminars and Scored Discussions De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Engaging Students

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  1. Engaging Students Incorporating Depth, Complexity, and Questioning Strategies into the classroom.

  2. Tools to Engage Learners • Effective questioning techniques • Classroom strategies that guide discussions • Socratic Seminars and Scored Discussions • De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats • Bloom’s Taxonomy • Posters, Planning Guides, Templates, G-B Matrix • Planning for Depth and Complexity • Icons, Posters, Templates • Student access to material meeting their rate and level

  3. Questioning Strategies • Methods used by teachers and students to ask questions that require the respondent to use high-level, critical, and/or creative thinking skills when processing information or responding to the question.

  4. 1&2 Questioning Effective Questioning Techniques • Increase Think time and Wait time • Talk less, ask more • Move from simple to complex • Avoid “yes or no” questions • Don’t let a few students dominate the conversation/questioning/answering

  5. Just by increasing wait time by three seconds, teachers can… Increase student achievement Increase number of higher cognitive responses Increase contributions by non-participatory students Increasing question complexity… Extends thinking skills Clarifies understanding Creates links between ideas Enhances curiosity Provides challenges Two effective techniques

  6. Depth and Complexity

  7. Depth….The Bigger Picture • Refers to how a person approaches “the big picture”. Often, the approach starts with the concrete and moves to the abstract or starts with the known and moves to the unknown.

  8. Depth • Requires students to examine • facts & concepts • generalizations • related principles and theories • Necessitates uncovering details and new knowledge related to a topic of study. • Encourages students to adopt perspectives and to see patterns in connections.

  9. Complexity…. More Parts • Bridges the content to other disciplines, enhancing the relevance for students • Complexity encourages students to • Relate to concepts and ideas at a sophisticated level • See associations among diverse subjects, topics, or levels • Find multiple solutions from multiple points of view

  10. Bigger picture Depth: Requires a student to uncover the detail about how a car works Complexity: Requires a student to see the working relationships between the different parts More parts

  11. Why? • Engage all students in high-level thinking and learning. • Develop each student’s creative and critical thinking skills. • Appropriately challenge all students to become autonomous learners by developing deeper, more complex, and extensive understanding of subject matter.

  12. What does this look like? • Teachers choose instructional materials that engage, develop, and challenge. • Teachers model for and interact with students: • ask questions • provide feedback • give assignments • provide assessment • Students engage with the content and each other at high levels, with increased Depth and Complexity in their interactions

  13. How to Help Students Make Depth and Complexity Their Own • Use icons • Post Examples of Question Prompts • Teach students to think in terms of • The Language of the Discipline • The patterns, rules, ethics, trends, details, and big ideas related to the content • Different Perspectives • Relationships over Time Icon chart

  14. Keys to Activate Deeper Learning • Language of the Discipline:categorize, identify • Details:describe, differentiate • Patterns:summarize, makeanalogies • Trends:prioritize, predict • Rules:judge credibility,hypothesize • Ethics:judge with criteria, determine bias • Big Idea:prove with evidence, identify main idea • Unanswered Questions: note ambiguity, distinguish fact from fiction

  15. Consistent use of questioning strategies and incorporating processes and content that give students access to increase depth and complexity lead to increased critical thinking and use of higher-order thinking skills.

  16. Original Revised Bloom’s Bloom’s • Evaluation • Synthesis • Analysis • Application • Comprehension • Knowledge • Creating • Evaluating • Analyzing • Applying • Understanding • Remembering Higher-order thinking 5&6 (Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

  17. Method to see a different perspective:The Six Thinking Hats by de Bono • White Hat: Focus on data. • Red Hat: Use emotion. • Purple Hat: Look at the bad points. • Yellow Hat: Think positively. • Green Hat: Think creatively • Blue Hat: Direct the process. Steer conversation toward the most needed hat. Activity packet

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