Driving Questions? WELCOME Laura Evans, Supervisor Elementary Integrated Curriculum, Montgomery County Public Schools Brenda Anderson, Instructional Specialist, Elementary Integrated Curriculum, Montgomery County Public Schools

Outcome By the end of this session, participants will be able to –  Use inquiry driving questions to promote student thinking.

Share your thinking  What is the value of asking students to formulate their own questions?

Standards Based Teaching and Learning We will model  Information Literacy  1.5.B.3 Formulate and refine questions to meet an information need  Writing  4.5.C.7 Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

Standards Based Teaching and Learning You will experience  Reading  5.5.A.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.  d. Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.

Inquiry Driving Question How do you teach inquiry using driving questions?

Tapping into existing background knowledge What do you already know about teaching students to use a driving question to formulate their own questions for an inquiry? Process Record ideas on sticky notes Create an affinity diagram

Build your background knowledge Inquiry Driving Questions LiveBinder URL: Password: will be provided at session

Framing Your Thinking for Reading  What do you already know about teaching students to use a driving question to formulate their own questions for an inquiry?

Build your background knowledge Process  Choose to explore the resources under one of the three tabs in the LiveBinder (password: SLMPquestioning) or select a hard copy of a chapterLiveBinder  Think-Pair-Share with a neighbor  What did you learn about teaching questioning?  What questions do you have about teaching questioning?

Mini-Lesson How do you use information to formulate questions?  What do I wonder?  Why did the author say that?  How does my question relate to the inquiry driving question?  Why do I need to think about my questions?

Apply the Mini Lesson Formulating Questions Process  Reflect on the information you just acquired  Formulate questions you have  Share

Apply the Mini Lessons Formulating Questions What do you want to learn about teaching and using driving questions with students? How do your questions relate to this session’s inquiry driving question? DQ: How do you teach inquiry using driving questions?

What you experienced  Standards-based  Information literacy, writing, reading relationship  Guided -  choice  discussion  question formulation  Critical Thinking: Evaluation, Synthesis  Creative Thinking: Fluency, Flexibility  Academic Success: Metacognition, Collaboration

What have you learned?  What is the value of asking students to formulate their own questions?

Next Steps?  What will you do next?  Create a PLC to continue your study of how to teach students to formulate their own questions?  Read more resources?  Thanks for coming!

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