Part 1 of Better Questions
How can we ask questions that make students think rather than just remember?
Part 3 of Better Questions
Math is a particularly tricky subject for asking higher-level questions. Here are a couple of techniques I've used to prompt students to think, not merely calculate.
Part 2 of Better Questions
High-level questions on their own simply aren't enough. We must create sequences of questions!
Part 7 of Better Questions
Use these puzzling images to build a classroom culture that is comfortable with curiosity, ambiguity, and taking intellectual risks.
Part 5 of Better Questions
What would the pie chart look like for these three situations: the teacher asks the students, a student asks the teacher, or a student asks another student a question? I can tell you my pie chart would have been very lopsided.
Part 1 of Updating Old Questions
I update an old question about conflict and character change in the story Hatchet.
Part 4 of Better Questions
How much time do students get to think? How much time do students need to think? How can we bring those into alignment?
Part 4 of Updating Old Questions
How I'd upgrade a dull "which one is better" question.
Part 3 of Updating Old Questions
How I'd improve a low-level question about a story's genre.
Part 2 of Updating Old Questions
How I'd update a low-level, overly engaging math question.
Part 5 of Updating Old Questions
How I'd break down and rebuild a task about judging a volcano.
Part 6 of Better Questions
How to improve questions at the "evaluate" level of Bloom's Taxonomy.