Questioning Strategies to Increase Students Mathematics Performance

Session Dates

Wednesday May 02, 2018 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

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The session will focus on using the power of questioning to engage students, increase their thinking, and facilitate the development of mathematics language, concepts and skills. Specific strategies, including a variety of ways to evaluate questioning practices, how to align curriculum and instruction through pre-planning questions, and formatively assessing students´ thinking by targeting common error patterns, misconceptions and over-generalizations will be shared.

Objectives

Participants will:

  • Make use of various questioning processes
  • Describe the nature and function of questions related to increasing mathematical content knowledge
  • Construct high level, deep thinking questions
  • Self assess questions
  • Describe research in thinking, metacognition, and higher-order cognitive processing

Target Audience

Special education teachers, general education teachers, math teachers grades 3 to high school.

Individuals attending this course must arrive on time and stay the duration of the course in order to receive Act 48 Professional Education hours. Requests for exceptions are to be brought to the attention of the individual´s Superintendent or IU Director prior to the course.


Topics Covered: Mathematics

Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this training. Contact: Sonya Barksdale, at 717-901-2268, or "sbarksdale@pattan.net(Sonya Barksdale email)":mailto:sbarksdale@pattan.net.

Event Info

Event Type:

Inservices/workshops

Credit Type:

Act 48 Clock Hour
No credit

Presenters:

Beatrice Moore Luchin

Event Contact:

Registration:

Sonya Barksdale
sbarksdale@pattan.net
717-901-2268