SIA Course: Effective Questioning

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Effective Questioning provides teachers with strategies and tools that increase teacher effectiveness and accelerate learning by ensuring that quality questions are used frequently and effectively throughout a lesson to deepen understanding and assess learning. Teachers will learn how to maximize student learning with questions and questioning strategies that generate thoughtful responses.

Effective Questioning prepares students to be successful with 21st Century Standards. The new generation of standards and today’s education expectations demand that teachers go beyond equipping students to simply recall and replicate information. Now, they must deepen student understanding of content by asking students to analyze and apply information. This requires that teachers know how to plan and ask higher order questions and use strategies to support students in providing quality responses. In the Effective Questioning course, teachers will gain the knowledge and skills to take their questioning to a higher level, increasing the depth of understanding of their students. By planning and asking questions that stimulate higher order thinking, using effective response strategies and supporting students in providing thoughtful answers, all students will advance their learning as teachers assess their learning.

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