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Professional DevelopmentScience Education October 2013
What am I?
Learning Goals
Success Criteria
• Identify a framework for inquiry-based instruction
• Differentiate teacher and student roles in questioning
• Investigate a strategy to develop students’ questioning skills
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Engage
Explore
ExplainElaborate
Evaluate
5 E’sScience Lesson
Engagement throughQuestionin
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• Take greater ownership of their learning
• Deepen comprehension
• Make connections and discoveries on their own
Students who know how to ask their own questions…
Harvard Graduate School of Education 2011
Engagement through Questioning
Step 1: Teacher designs a Question Focus
Step 2: Student produce Questions
Step 3: Student strengthens Questions
Step 4: Student Prioritizes Questions
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Step 1: Teacher Designs a Question Focus
Engage through
Discrepancy
Step 2: Student Produces Questions
Guidelines:• Write as many thoughts and questions as
you can
• Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer any of the questions
• Turn any statements into questions
Step 3: Student Strengthens Questions
Who is running for class president ?
Closed-Ended Open-Ended
What do you think of the candidates in the class election?
Higher Complexity
What does each candidate support for the spring event?
Text-SupportedResponse must include evidence from a source of text.
Step 3: Student Strengthens Questions
Is one liquid heavier than the other?
Closed-Ended Open-Ended
How can liquids of different densities mix?
Higher Complexity
How does the molecular geometry of the liquids affect the volume of the solution?
Response must include evidence from a source of text.
Text-Supported
Step 4: Student Prioritizes Questions
Divergent thinking to
Convergent thinking
Take AWAY
Students need to learn the practice of questioning because
too often they accept what they are told, without going any further.
Best Practices
How does it look in your classroom?
Professional Learning Communities
PLC Roles
• Facilitator• Timekeeper• Recorder
PLC Action Plan
1 time only
Recorder
Monthly
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Professional Learning Communities