Resources to use to support developing the higher
order thinking skills of our students...
Questioning (improve quality
of questions on tests, in lectures, on assignments/tasks)
The Thinking Skills Booklet (Marzano/Costa side)
(comparing, classifying, induction, deduction, error analysis, construction of support, abstracting,
analyzing perspectives, decision making, problem solving, experimental inquiry, invention and investigation (historical, futuristic
and definitional)
+ explains the mental processes for each thinking skill
+ provides 'word'
ready templates for each thinking skill
+ provides questions to guide the process
The Thinking Skills Booklet (Bloom's/Dagget side)
(Bloom's
cognitive domain from a student's perspective)
- How do
I know I have reached this level of thinking?
- What do i do at this level?
- How will the teacher know I am at this level?
- What does the teacher do at
this level?
- What are typical ways I can demonstrate, on my own, skills at this level?
- What are typical work products?
- What are possible question
'stems'?
- What are the descriptive 'action' or verbs that promote this
level?
For a copy of the booklet, email requests to bschroeder@aea267.k12.ia.us Questioning Toolkit ( Educational Technology Journal, '97) http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit.html+ provides explanation and guidance for using multiple types of questions, ranging
from organizing questions to strategic questions+ demonstrates the use
of technology that assists the learning
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