Description
Professional development book offering rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high-level thinking, and enhance students' self-concept. The questioning strategies favor in-depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Examples of strategies include personification, what if/hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques, such as a constructing a mind map organizing and visually constructing relationships between ideas. Diagrams, examples of questions, and bulleted lists constitute a majority of the book's content, and the unifying metaphorical shape throughout the text is a triangle. Mathematics, social studies, and reading are specific disciplines for which the text provides concrete examples.
Sample Pages
CLC0072C.pdf
CLC0072B.pdf
CLC0072A.pdf
Loyal Customer –
Does questioning really make a difference? Yes, it does. Farris acknowledges this truth in her introduction. She stresses the words BALANCE, DIFFERENT, ACTIVE and QUESTIONING. Teachers must balance their different questions in order to elicit active responses from their students. Farris moves the reader from the traditional way of questioning students into the differentiated view of questioning. She gives a plethora of examples across disciplines of ways to question students and to obtain thoughtful responses and products from those students. The various games, examples, and techniques for questioning are based on creativity, the teaching/learning process, and all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. This book is an excellent teacher resource and is worth purchasing.
Gwendolyn A. Roberson
Loyal Customer –
“Questioning Makes the Difference has been a very useful book for both my school and college students and also for inservicing teachers. I go straight to Nancy’s materials to get started whenever I need to prepare a presentation or class.”
-Marty Lovern, Principal, Cambridge City, IN
Loyal Customer –
“Thank you for turning my regular ed classroom into a daily think tank. I’ve been a fan for many years and have developed my skills because of your initiatives.”
-Marie Ellis, Kenosha WI