2013 National Conference

1. 2013 National Conference Inquiring Minds Darlene Pope

2. Enhancing Critical Thinking and Questioning as a way to implement Common Core/Rigor

3. Overview • What is Inquiry? • Common Core and Depth of Knowledge • Costa’s Habits of Mind • A Leap of Faith! • A Question of Questioning • Costa’s Levels of Thinking • Build mental muscle…allow the students to do the lifting.

4. Inquiry is…? Take a moment to consider what inquiry is… Write your thoughts down… (1 minute) Share your thoughts with someone near you. Finda commonality and a difference What did you come up with. www.wordle.net

5. www.visuwords.com www.visuwords.com(uses flash) 5

6. Learning with a question in mind... 6

7. Dominate Language of StandardsThe Language of Common Core...HO.1www.wordle.net 7

8. DOK.. What is the Connection? • Level 1 Recall • Level 2 Skill/Concept • Level 3 Strategic Thinking • Level 4 Extended Thinking

9. Where DOK and Inquiry meet • A tool to ensure that teachers areteachingand designingassessmentsat a level that will promote student achievement… • Do not focus on the verb…but on the thinking and the complexityof the task.

10. Make sure students know what the thinking looks like • Think Aloud! • Metacognition… • Physical representationof the thinking involved

11. Where would you place the tasks you assign your students? Think Pair Share… Level 1 Recall Level 2 Skill/Concept Level 3 Strategic Thinking Level 4 Extended Thinking “He who learns, but does not think, is lost! He who thinks, but does not learn is in great danger! Confucius

12. A Thinker’s Roadmap • Habits of Mind (Costa & Kallick) • What intelligentpeople do when they don’t know what to do. • A portable guide for thinkers…

13. http://thinkerstoolbox.wikispaces.com/Habits+of+Mind

14. A Leap of Faith! • A scaffold is not a permanent structure!

15. A Question of Questioning

16. Reflect on a typical class… • Think of 3 questions you recently asked your students.Write them down. • If you can recall…also write down three questions your students asked you… • Finally write down three questions you have for me.

17. Levels of Thinking HO.4 • Costa’s Level of Thinking • Level 1-in the text • Level 2- you and the text or or text and text • Level 3 mostly you

18. Now… • Let’s answer some questions about your questions. • For each question I ask I want you to consider … • The answer… • What your brain does before and after the answer. • How I responded to your answer. • How can this inform our classroom practice?

19. Research shows… • Observations of both elementary and secondary classrooms have shown that teachers significantly overuse knowledge questions. In fact, during the course of an average day, many teachers will ask upward of 300 or more knowledge-based questions. • www.teachervision.com

20. Did you know… • The types of questions we use • 60% recall • 20% procedural • 20% require a higher level of thinking Source: P.E. Blosser (1975) “How to Ask the Right Questions. National Science Teachers’ Association

21. Asking and Getting Higher Level Questions • Something to consider… • What level of questions do we ask our students? • What level of questions are our students asking us? • How many questions do we ask during a class? • How many questions do our students ask during a class? • Are these questions procedural, content, or process related? • How do we determine who asks or answers questions? • How do we determine whether or not those who do not ask or answer questions are thinking and processing information?

22. The Leap! • Increased student engagement

23. Unexpected Discoveries

24. Hello silence my old friend • Think time • Double entry journals-iternal conversations • Metacognitive Journal

25. Which is more Important…the journey or the destination? …the question or the answer?

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