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= Welcome to Questioning! = =Introduction= Today we are going to be looking at different ways to incorporate questioning into your curriculum. By the end of this workshop you will:
 * Recognize the importance of questioning
 * Understand how questioning can be used as an assessment tool
 * Have three new strategies for implementing questioning in the classroom
 * Understand the key principles of questioning
 * Incorporate your prior knowledge and experience with the content of the workshop

Overview
I. Introduce Key Principles II. Practice Questioning Strategies with two different Protocols III. Reflect on your own classroom

Key Principles

 * Keep questioning focused and on topic.
 * Use wait time and pacing to encourage all students to engage.
 * Ask questions of varying difficulty from basic remembering to higher levels of critical thinking like evaluating and creating.
 * Encourage student-to-student questioning as well as student-to-teacher questioning.
 * Use questioning as a formative assessment to gauge where students are in their understanding of the topic.