1. Questioning
Elisabeth Brooke

2. Schedule 12:00-12:15 Introductions and Warm-Up
12:15-12:45 Types of Questions and Turning the Tables
12:50-1:35 Classroom Scenarios
1:35-2:45 Work on Strategies for your classroom
2:45-3:00 Share what you’ve come up with

3. Introductions Name Teaching Assignment Years in KISD
Experience with GT Students
What you would like to get out of this workshop
Best question a student ever asked you

4. Types of Questions
Inference Questions: ”What do you know by looking at this photograph?" (asks the photography teacher) "What do you know about the character in this selection?”
Interpretation Questions: ”How do the descriptions of characters in Inherit the Wind reveal the author’s tones?" "How would the music be different if it was played in a major key, rather than a minor key?”
Transfer Questions: ”How would Shakespeare have written about this political scandal?" "How would a modern-day musician interpret this classical piece?”

5. Types of Questions
Questions about Hypotheses: ”How might history have been different if Martin Luther King, Jr. had never delivered his famous `I Have a Dream' speech?" "Based on current social and political issues, what do you think future movies, novels, and plays will be about?
Reflective Questions: “What about this concept do I still not know?" "What about my work has improved? Needs improvement?" "Where does my work reflect my understanding of this concept? "What does this work say about me?"

6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

7. Game-Set-MAtch
Are there rules for questioning in your classroom? What are they?
How do you Encourage questioning from your students?
What kind of Questioning Do you encourage?
How do you respond to student questioning?
Who does most of the questioning in your classroom?

8. Turning the Tables: Getting GT Students to ask the Questions
There are not a lot of resources for this, So how do you do it?
How do you use GT questioning?
How do you Stimulate Questioning?
What do you do when the Questions go over the heads of the other students? Over your head?
William’s Strategies for Differentiation (OnLine)
Lying to them (Just make sure you straighten them out in the end.)

9. Classroom Scenario
As you view the following videos, take a few notes about the questions being asked by students and by the teacher.
How are questions being used in these two classes?

10. Prufrock: A Poem about Questions

11. Assess and Evaluate How are questions being used in this lesson?
Who is asking the most questions?
How are student responses received?
How are student questions received?

12. Students Questioning Each Other

13. Assess and Evaluate How are questions being used in this lesson?
Who is asking the most questions?
How are student responses received?
How are student questions received?

14. Your Turn
Work with a partner or a group (in similar content areas or grade levels) to create a lesson where students are answering and asking questions.
How would your prepare them to ask the questions?
Share with the group.