"When students’ instruction is organized around meaningful, clear questions, they understand better, remember longer, and engage much more deeply and for greater periods of time.”
Jim Burke - What’s the Big Idea?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-the-Big-Idea-ebook/dp/B003Z0CXRK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347292733&sr=8-1
During the course, we will be making use of some of the strategies presented in Jim Burke's book 'What's the Big Idea?' including the three levels of questioning described below:
1. Factual Question
- Is verifiable—answers found on the page.
- Responds to questions: who, what, when, where, how?
- Takes the reader into the text.
2. Inductive Question
- Is verifiable—answers found in the text, based on details and examples.
- Responds to questions: why, how, and so what?
- Takes readers through the text, allowing them to evaluate and interpret evidence from the visual, spoken, or written text.
3. Analytical Question
- Connects the text to other texts, ideas, or situations through analysis.
- Responds to questions: How are these similar, different, related ?
- Takes readers beyond the text, allowing them to analyze the relationship between this text and other texts, ideas, events, or situations.