EMPOWERING STUDENTS AS QUESTIONERS : skills, strategies, and structures to realize the... potential of every learner

**Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them!** When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today. How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include:- Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms - Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry - Student questioning models for distance learning By instilling students with the desire and ability to become better questioners, teachers will see more actively engaged students, more collaboration, and an increase in overall student motivation for learning and achievement. "The first edition of Thinking Though Quality Questioning provided teachers with an accessible, research-based blueprint for developing student meta-cognitive skills and ensuring that students take responsibility for their own learning. Walsh and Sattes use the findings of cognitive scientists to highlight quality questioning behaviors and explain how to connect these to discrete student meta-cognitive outcomes. Each chapter includes teacher best practice in questioning and relates this to how students think and how they can be trained to manage their own learning. This second edition hones in on the concept of Student Response-Ability, defined as: "the student's capacity to form a thoughtful response when presented with a question or issue, the confidence to express this thinking verbally and/or through action, and the commitment to contribute to a learning community." The new edition restructures the book around student "I" statements or mindsets that enforce its theme of student-centricity. It also expands on the concept of feedback by showing teachers how to help students both receive it and give it. It provides new information on making the classroom safe and healthy for students. About half of the content will be new or restructured"-- Provided by publisher