Cathy Pressnell

Welcome to week 10 of our 16 Week Teaching Challenge!

Week 10: Practice Using Questions to Promote Student Learning

The challenge is to put into practice what you learned last week by planning to use questions to promote student learning in upcoming lessons. 

What does this look like? For at least 3 lessons, you'll:

1. Internalize the lesson. Be sure to identify its purpose, the heart, the student work that aligns with the purpose, and how independently that work is supposed to be done.
2. Identify a sequence of questions in the heart of the lesson. 
3. Read through the questions and plan: What will you do to ensure the questions are used to promote student learning? What will you not do to make sure a teaching move doesn't detract from that?
4. When you teach the lesson, gather the student work that was completed. Ideally with your coach, your grade level, or a colleague, consider: How do you see that using questions in this way pressed for students to learn more from the text?

Completed that? Fantastic! You just completed your Week 10 Teaching Challenge. Log your work here if you like, and be sure to check back next week for Week 11!

Here's to simply teaching well,