Chapter 5: Content to Questions, Questions to Skills

1. What is planning in partnering?

2. How do I translate the curriculum into guiding questions?

3. How can I focus on the appropriate verbs?

what does “planning” mean in

the partnering pedagogy?

the most important is almost

certainly translating the content of lessons into the questions you will ask

to guide students to the information and learning they need, without you

having to tell it to them.

CREATING GUIDING QUESTIONS

The partnering pedagogy is all about asking students

the questions before, rather than after

1. Big or overarching questions, which some may refer to as the goals or

objective of the lesson (but in question form).

2. More detailed incremental or supporting questions.

When planning, always think about what you can ask students, rather

than what you can tell them.

CONSIDER

1. Can my students understand the guiding questions?

2. Are the guiding questions open-ended, and do they require a complex

answer?

3. Will my students need to learn important content knowledge and a

variety of skills and tools to answer the guiding questions?

4. Do the guiding questions allow me to create a local context for the

topic(s) under study and have students solve a real problem?

Give students the questions, rather than the  answers

Relating Guiding Questions to Student Passions.

Frequent Decision Making

Socratic Questioning