Question Renovation PD
Examples of taking less-than-stellar questions and renovating them into something much better!
Fixing an under-developed (but interesting) task that was originally part of a choice menu.
A high level of thinking in math also requires the support of thoughtful scaffolding.
So students can identify a simile, metaphor, and hyperbole. What next?
What will my students do after they've named the story's genre?
This task is all about the product, but completely ignores how students will think.
Go beyond merely explaining strengths and weaknesses and get students thinking in interesting ways.
How to use a classic to revamp a study of context clues.
Let's fix these nine, underdeveloped discussion questions!
This math puzzle wasn't so puzzling. What went wrong?
I'd show a quote and then ask, "What does this quote mean?" And that was it!
Rather than just "paraphrasing" a poem, what if we did a cover version?
Why was I asking five, unrelated, low-level questions in a row?
When we want students to memorize two terms, we actually shouldn't aim for memorization!