Now That’s a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning

About This Course

Explore how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies – questioning – can provide the proper scaffolding to deepen student thinking, understanding, and application of knowledge.

Participants will learn:

  • Instructional methods and techniques for using questioning to extend and evaluate student learning experiences
  • Eight different kinds of questions that challenge students to demonstrate higher-order thinking as categorized by Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and communicate depth of knowledge as designated by Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model
  • How to rephrase the performance objectives of college and career readiness standards into questions that will engage and challenge students to think deeply and express and share the depth and extent of their learning