http://netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/questions?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "questions" on Netvouz ftp://ftp.region15.org/fcsfoodprep.pdf Pomperuag High School Region 15 This curriculum provides and example of Focus Questions for Curriculum (It does not include understandings.) Career and Technical Education, PE and Specials > Home Ec. jgordon Fri, 02 May 2008 16:13:16 GMT http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=0341&r=sb070827 Improve student extended-response answers and develop a life-long skill. Ardith Davis Cole has developed an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol, the "Better Answer" formula, that helps students focus on the task at hand. It is a process that begins with teacher modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and eventually moves students into independent response writing. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy > Writing jgordon Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:21:18 GMT http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/33829 Susan Lanford gives advice to teachers, but the sample interview questions and other resources can be helpful to administrators also. Administrators > Recruit and Retain Bilingual and ESL teachers jgordon Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:33:08 GMT http://ozpk.tripod.com/0000000EQ Inquiring into Essential Questions gives teaching and learning purposeful, meaningful and "big picture" focus for learning details and ideas. It engages higher mental and emotional capacities at a time when "high stakes" testing trivializes students' thinking and learning. Curriculum Development > Examples of Understandings/Big Ideas: Many with Curr. Dev. Examples jgordon Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:02:13 GMT http://www.edweek.org/ew/events/chats/2009/05/15/index.html Carol Ann Tomlinson, a leading authority on differentiated instruction, discussed the core principles of the practice and took your questions on using it in the classroom and as a strategy for whole-school improvement. Education Week Differentiated Instruction > Carol Ann Tomlinson jgordon Fri, 22 May 2009 13:28:06 GMT http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/framework/index.php?page=framework-intro-thin#skills Instructional Framework This site provides templates for educators to use to enhance higher order thinking skills, including samples of types of questions that can stimulate students to think more critically. Rec. by Colorin Colorado Higher-order thinking jgordon Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:08:14 GMT http://www.slideshare.net/BethRitterGuth/literature-questions A slide presentation of literature questions for a university literature course. Language Arts jgordon Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:54:48 GMT http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=9000&r=sb060518 View entire book online. Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaanh off this step-by-step book which outlines more than 80 tried-and-proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Engaging Students and Multiculturalism jgordon Fri, 19 May 2006 14:46:15 GMT http://www.readingrockets.org/article/16287 From Reading Rockets By: Cheryl K. Iannucci (2007) Research has demonstrated that the most effective read-alouds are those where children are actively involved asking and answering questions and making predictions, rather than passively listening. This article describes in detail a technique for a three-step interactive read-aloud using sophisticated storybooks. Literacy > EMERGENT LITERACY jgordon Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:00:57 GMT http://www.scilinks.org/tour/default.asp SciLinks is a free service—all you need is a SciLinks-enabled textbook and a computer connected to the World Wide Web. And SciLinks is easy to use—just log on to the SciLinks site and enter a SciLinks number from the margin of your textbook. You will be offered a smorgasbord of teacher-approved Internet resources tied to that specific point in your book! Tools for generating question pools for tests are also available. If you have just one book from the several companies that provide this resource, you would know the codes to access the selected sites. Science and Math > SCIENCE ONLY jgordon Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:29:59 GMT