Asking Great Questions

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PEDC 9007 Asking Great Questions
3 Graduate Level or In-service Credits/ 45 hours Instructor: Janice McLachlan July 1-30, October 1-30, November 1-30, December 1-30, March 1-30, October 1- December 30, April 1-30, May 1-30
University of the Pacific

Is questioning an art? What is a great question? How do you ask a great question? How can teachers use the power of inquiry to motivate learning? This course will provide teachers with the information to improve student’s questioning skills. Teachers will learn how to ask good questions and how those questions increase student achievement outcomes. This course will help teachers create activities to improve questioning skills and promote the art of designing good questions for their individual classroom needs. The revised philosophy of Bloom’s Taxonomy will be the framework for developing essential questions for the N—12 classroom through key ideas, craft and structure. The shift in intellectual classification includes: remembering, understanding applying, analyzing evaluating and creating. The creation of various essential question models will guide and shape N-12 curriculum in every academic area. Teachers will learn how to differentiate these models to help meet the needs of their students for increased higher order thinking skills. Teachers will understand the order of thinking processes and will formulate motivating learning experiences for their students to meet diversified classroom needs. NYS and Common Core Learning Standards are addressed. This course is appropriate for all educators including Guidance Counselors, Psychologists, ELA, Math, Social Studies, Foreign Language, Science, The Arts, Physical and Special Education, N-12.