Blooming+Questions

= Blooming Questions =

Your group will watch this video clip on the grand challenges.

When finished you will complete the blooming questions activity handed to you. When finished your group will complete this section of the wiki site.
 * You need to include a description of the protocol and
 * ideas for implementing it in different subject areas.

Your colleagues will have a chance to see your work and make changes.

Blooming Questions Protocol:

Blooming Questions are designed to push students in the direction of higher order thinking. To develop Blooming Questions, we use the Blooming Questions guide provided by our Instructional Coach. As partners we watched a video and co-developed questions for each level of Bloom's taxonomy. Developing these questions in advance helps to keep the teacher focused and not settle for questioning students at the level of knowledge and comprehension. This protocol could also potentially helps us to develop a project centered on the higher level questions. The questioning helps to serve as a scaffold for students so that they have a foundation upon which to build their conclusions.

One of the best ways to use this protocol is to have students develop their own questions in any subject area. This way students are able to focus on questions that they have and move from lower level questions to higher level questions and engage more in the classroom.


 * Using Bloom's Protocol can be helpful in most subjects because it allows a "shot-gut" type of approach to understanding a topic. Questions at all levels can be posed and in order to understand the topic, all of these levels of questions need to be answered.