Active Questioning : Questioning Still Makes the Difference

Following the theory there is more thinking and learning in asking questions than in answering questions, Active Questioning: Questioning Still Makes the Difference presents reproducible examples of 5 kinds of questions. The goal of the book is to teach students how to ask differentiated questions about content.

Modifying questions is an instructional strategy that differentiates the process in Differentiated Instruction. Differentiated questions can be used with any content and any learning style. The application of differentiated questions carries over to making good decisions, communicating effectively, and solving problems creatively.

As a follow-up to the Best Seller Questioning Makes the Difference, which introduces the educator to differentiated questioning, Active Questioning asks the students to use differentiated questions and illustrates each unique kind of question, modeling the active questioning process. The 5 most popular kinds of questions include:

Productive Quantity Questions,
Concrete to Abstract Compare/Contrast Questions,
Motivational Feelings/Opinions/Point of View/Personification Questions,
Creative What if . . .? Questions,
Critical How come? Questions.

Included are:
Objectives for Active Questioning,
A Self-Check Teacher Checklist,
Low Level and High Level Thinking Questions,
Bloom s Taxonomy,
Brainstorming,
Mind Mapping,
Preference Questions,
Mind Branching,
A Wheel of Questions,
Spinning Questions,
Skinny and Fat Questions,
Before and After Questions,
Visual Questioning,
Questioning Puzzle Pieces,
Questions by the Deck.