Quality Questioning and Critical Thinking
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Quality Questioning
Quality Questioning and Critical Thinking
Ebony L. Rowe
University of Phoenix
CUR/515
Professor Norheim
December 17, 2023
Quality Questioning
As stated previously, when integrating quality questioning into your grade level content, you must first consider that it’s grade level appropriate to ask. Being a kindergarten teacher, I must first state that out of the ten quality questioning types discussed in this PowerPoint, we do not use them all for our grade level. Before we can even begin prompting quality questioning in kindergarten, we must prioritize our younger learners in meeting their needs by doing repetitive modeling and visually presenting pictures, PowerPoints, and videos. After the teachers had done an excellent job explaining the material, we then led with the questioning.
As a Kindergarten teacher, I suggest starting each topic or module with an essential question. The EQ is used to get their minds flowing and answer based on prior knowledge. Once the module ends, the essential questions should be answered based on what they’ve been taught. Following the critical question, you want to allow the students to experience prediction questioning. This will enable them to explore their imagination and predict what may occur in the
story or topic being addressed. I always have my students look at the front cover or take a picture and walk through the story for a better visual. Once they’ve had a moment to see the pictures, allow them two minutes to turn and talk to their partner about what they suggest will take place in the story. Always remember to say that there are no right or wrong answers when making predictions. Prediction questions are the most popular quality questioning type that will be used for critical thinking in kindergarten. Next, we should prompt diagnostic questions. These
questions are asked as you discuss the topic to ensure that all students understand the level of thinking of how the story and teacher want them to respond. These questions follow reading or discussing things based on our essential questions. For example, at this point, we may have read about three stories about community heroes. Now, you want to give them a moment to think about their community and identify their community heroes. Always relate topics to real-life
Quality Questioning
scenarios. The following three quality questions above are my tips on grade-level appropriateness for kindergarten.
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