How Changing My Questioning Changed Everything
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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After my minute twelvemonth of didactics my country switched to using the Common Core State Standards. While the standards weren't also dissimilar from the standards nosotros were already using, how they wanted us to learn math switched drastically. No to a greater extent than feeding students algorithms, they wanted students to discover, apply as well as connect. I was totally on board alongside this switch, but the work was ALL of our textbooks were straightaway considered old. I all of a abrupt had no resources for my students to use. However, that summertime earlier schoolhouse started I went to diverse classes that taught most how nosotros would straightaway hold upwards didactics math. They also addressed the outcome of our lack of resources. They taught us how nosotros could genuinely purpose our onetime resources but nosotros simply needed to contrary the questions. This stance was brilliant! Let me plough over an example, a math query may convey said something like, "Find the majority of this rectangular prism alongside a superlative of iii inches, a width of two inches as well as a length of 10 inches." Instead, contrary the question, "Create a rectangular prism that has a majority of sixty cubic inches. Justify your answer." So much to a greater extent than reasoning goes into the minute question.
I used this stance of contrary questioning as well as created an activeness called "What's the Question?" Essentially, I plough over students the reply to the question, as well as they convey to come upwards up alongside the question. Many times at that topographic point is to a greater extent than than i answer, but equally long equally students tin justify their reasoning it industrial plant for me.
I am giving away a sample page as well as thus y'all tin larn an stance of this activity, as well as purpose it alongside your students. You volition run across deep-thinking growth inwards your classroom!
CLICK HERE for "What's the Question?" sample page
CLICK HERE for "What's the Question?" sample page
