1. Professional Learning: Moving from Compliance to Engagement

2. How do I evaluate a Lesson?
Focus 2: Using Effective Question Techniques

3. Questioning
On Average, a teacher asks 400 questions a day (one third of their time)
Most of the questions are answered in less than one second (Hastings, 2003)
60% recall facts and 20% are procedural (Hattie, 2012)
Most answers are right or wrong

4. Question Categories Closed Questions
Factual and focus on a correct response
Imply teacher has predetermined correct response in mind
Kind of Learning it supports: Recall
Open Questions:
Have many answers that are less predictable
Kind of Learning it supports: makes students think further and more deeply
Help teacher assess student’s understanding

5. Let’s Practice Take a look at the questions asked during a math lesson
Identify whether they are Open or Closed Questions

6. Open or Closed? Calculate 25 × 42
Calculate 25 × 42 in two different ways. Compare your ways with those of your friend. 

7. Open or Closed?
Make a word problem where one needs to calculate the volume of a rectangular prism in order to solve it. (One idea is to use a pool, for example.) 
Find the volume of a rectangular prism with a height of 2.1 m, depth of 4.5 m, and width of 3.8 m.

8. Open or Closed?
Find 5-2 
Write a pattern using positive, zero, and negative exponents, using your chosen base. Try different kinds of bases! (whole number, zero, one, negative, even fractional base...) 

9. How can I “open” a question?
Remove the restriction: How many coins does it take to make 45p?
Remove known: I have a closed handful of 5p coins. How much do I have?
Swap the known/unknown, change the restriction: I have 5 coins. Three are the same. How much money do I have?
Swap the known/unknown, remove restriction: I have 5 coins. How much money could I have?
Remove known and restriction, change unknown: I have some coins in my hand. How much money do I have?
Change known, unknown, and restriction: What is the shortest/longest line that can be made with 5 coins?
How many 5p coins are needed to make 45p?

10. Talk With a Partner
How can I improve the quality of my questions and responses ?
Each give at least one improvement

11. Next Week’s Session Choose ONE lesson you taught:
Record the questions you planned
Record student responses to the questions