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Using Questioning to Promote Higher-Order
Thinking and Engage Learners
Description: Now that the goals for your project are well-defined, and
assessment strategies are in place, you can focus on learner-centred teaching strategies. In this module, you discuss how to facilitate a
classroom in a project-based learning environment as well as how to use ICT to increase your own productivity or support your classroom management practice. You then create a document, presentation, or web-based
resource. You also plan how to implement your project in your classroom and create management resources to support learners while they work with ICT on their projects.
As teachers talk less, and learners talk more in the classroom, the role of questions in the classroom changes. In teacher-centred classrooms, learners often answer questions the teacher knows the answer to, and learners rarely ask important questions themselves. In
learner-centred classrooms, learning is guided, first by Curriculum-Framing Questions, and then by authentic questions that rise out of meaningful work with the content.
Click here to read more about facilitating good questioning...
In previous modules, you created Curriculum-Framing Questions for your project. Think about ways to use questioning techniques and your Curriculum-Framing Question to involve your learners and help them to think at a deeper level.
 Break into three groups, with each group discussing one of the following questions, and then share your ideas with the whole group:
- What are some ways that you can integrate the use of Curriculum-Framing Questions into your classroom and learner projects?
Optional: Click here for guidelines from the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource
- What are some ways that you can integrate the use of questioning into your
classroom and learner projects?
Optional: Click here for guidelines from the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource
- How can you teach learners the skills they need to perform higher-order thinking when they create projects? What types of questions, prompts, and scaffolds can you use to encourage learners to think deeply and not simply copy-and-paste answers?
Optional: Click here for guidelines from the Intel® Designing Effective Projects resource
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