What happens when we ask a math level that scares off 83% of our students? Don’t lower the ceiling! Lower the floor through scaffolding.
As a teacher, I didn't know how to ask questions well! I had basically no training. But I asked hundreds each day. Now, I'm renovating my embarrassingly bad old questions!
Multiple Perspectives on Veterans’ Day
We can’t just list multiple perspectives.
Updating Old Questions: A Character’s Bedroom
An under-developed task in which students designed a character’s room.
A Math Question That Moves Around on Bloom’s
I was aiming for engagement rather than higher-level thinking.
Updating Old Questions: A Mere Model of a Cell
Why are my best biologists just restating facts we already know?
Going Beyond “Name That Genre!”
What can we do once students correctly identify a story’s genre?
Updating Old Questions: Identify Figurative Language
What do we do after a student can identify the type of figurative language?
Updating Old Questions: The Planets’ Order
Oops! I just asked my students to put the planets in order! Here’s what I could do differently…
Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives
Just because we have two perspectives doesn’t mean we have a great question!
Making Categories of Famous Structures
A task about famous structures that stops at the bottom of Bloom’s.