Activity 8.2

Sharing Causal Maps and Practicing Effective Questioning

During this activity, you will role play teacher-learner interactions using inquiry-based questions while sharing your practice causal map. In addition, you will receive valuable feedback on the effectiveness of your map.

 
Step 1: Taking a Deeper Look at Maps

The Seeing Reason mapping tool supports investigation that occurs in cycles:

After building an initial map that taps learners’ prior knowledge of the topic, learners experiment or research to gather more data and evidence, and then return to revise and adjust their maps. Part of the teacher’s task involves cycles of listening, questioning, and refocusing learner work. The Seeing Reason Tool is best used for reasoning based on measurable or observable evidence. A teacher’s main job during map-building sessions is to lead learners to evaluate their own thinking—each time refocusing learners’ attention on the relationships among factors or weighing the evidence they have for a relationship. 

As a group, discuss some sample maps and the kinds of conversations you would have with the Student Teams that developed them.    

Note any questioning techniques you learned during this activity.

Next: Proceed to Step 2 of Activity 8.2