Responding When Students Don’t Get It

1. Responding When Students Don’t Get It Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey www.fisherandfrey.com

2. Zone of Proximal Development Scaffolding

3. “As easy as learning to ride a bike” “As easy as learning to ride a bike”

4. Scaffolds extend the range of the worker

5. Goal is Productive success

6. Robust questions Prompts Cues Direct explanation and modeling

7. Robust questions Prompts Cues Direct explanation and modeling

9. Robust Questions to Check for Understanding

10. Teacher Poses a Question Student responds

11. Elicitation Elaboration Clarifying Inventive Divergent Heuristic 6 Types

12. Questions should be used to assess what initial instruction has stuck, and what hasn’t

13. Elicitation Elaboration Clarifying Inventive Divergent Heuristic Most Common

14. Often described as reproductive questions “Who was the first president of the United States?” “What are the three kinds of atomic particles?” “When did the main character decide to leave home?” “Where did the Confederate Army surrender to the Union Army?” “Why do caterpillars make a chrysalis?” “How does Marty get food to feed Shiloh?”

15. Draws on the first three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

16. 85% of novice teachers’ questions are recognition and recall Tienken, Goldberg, & DiRocco, 2009

17. Experienced teachers asked this type of question 68% of the time Tienken, Goldberg, & DiRocco, 2009

18. Teacher: What is a nocturnal animal? Student: An animal that stays awake at night. Teacher: Good. What is a diurnal animal? I-R-E

19. It’s a problem when there’s nothing to follow the initial question.

20. Robust questions Prompts Cues Direct explanation and modeling

21. Teacher: What is a nocturnal animal? Student: An animal that stays awake at night. Teacher: Tell me more about that. Does a nocturnal animal have special characteristics? Student: Well, it doesn’t sleep a lot. Probe

22. Teacher: What is a nocturnal animal? Student: An animal that stays awake at night. Teacher: Tell me more about that. Does a nocturnal animal have special characteristics? Student: Well, it doesn’t sleep a lot. Misconception

23. Elicitation Elaboration Clarifying Inventive Divergent Heuristic Most Common

24. Elaboration and Clarificationquestions invite students to expand on answers

25. Elaboration questions probe “Tell me more about what you mean by that.” “What would you do next?” “What does this mean to you?” “And what happened after that?” “How did you feel about that?” “How would that work?” Open-ended questioning technique

26. Clarifying questions return the student to the text “How do you know that is true?” “Could you give me an example of that?” “You said tornadoes are more dangerous than earthquakes. What are your reasons for that?” “Why do you think Swimmy would be a good friend?”

27. Elicitation Elaboration Clarifying Inventive Divergent Heuristic Most Common

28. Draws on the top three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

29. What When Where Who Which Why How Suppose Justify Example To move to higher-order questions Use Less Of Use More Of

30. Prompting for Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking

31. Teacher Poses a Question Student responds Is the answer appropriate? Yes No Probe to elicit more information Prompt to elicit background knowledge Focus on cognitive/metacognitive

32. Questioning is about assessment Prompting is about doing

33. Background knowledge prompts invite students to use what they know to resolve problems

34. Teacher: What is a nocturnal animal? Student: An animal that stays awake at night. Teacher: Tell me more about that. Does a nocturnal animal have special characteristics? Student: Well, it doesn’t sleep a lot. Teacher: I’m thinking of those pictures we saw of the great horned owl and the slow loris in the daytime and at night. Does your answer still work? PROMPT

35. Process or Procedure Prompts To perform a specific task

36. Reflective prompt knowingaboutknowing “What did you learn today?”

37. Heuristic prompt Informal and less defined “Make a graph so you can see it.”

38. How do you find parking?

39. Heuristic prompts in reading

40. Cues to Shift Attention

41. Teacher Poses a Question Student responds Is the answer appropriate? Yes No Prompt to elicit background knowledge Focus on cognitive/metacognitive Probe to elicit more information Is the answer appropriate? Is the answer appropriate? Yes Yes No No Pose new question Cue to shift Attention to Information source Pose new question

42. Cues Shift attention to sources of information More directandspecificthan prompts

43. the expert commentator sees things you don’t cues do the same for novices Attention grows with competence

44. 6 Types Visual Physical Gestural Positional Verbal Environmental

45. Visual Cues Direct attention to print Circling, highlighting, underlining passages

46. Physical Cues The most overt Hand-over-hand; touching elbow

47. Gestural cues do not involve touching are purposeful and precise

48. Positional cues rely on movement

49. Verbal Cues “Watch out. This is where lots of people make a mistake.” Emphasis Cues Repeating Intonation Pausing

50. Proximity Environmental print Manipulatives Interactive whiteboards Environmental Cues