Questioning for Higher Order Thinking (3-Hour)

Description

In this 3-hour course, Joyce Juntune, Ph.D., takes you on an exploration of the essential role that questioning plays in learning. She provides four types of questions that will encourage higher order thinking in your students. Dr. Juntune explains how understanding comes from asking the right questions and identifying the right answers. 

Over the course of three modules, you will learn:

• The importance of using questioning in the classroom
• Person focused questions
• Analysis/descriptive questions
• Creativity questions
• Inquiry/curiosity questions
• Activities and resources to encourage questioning practices in the classroom

This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 3.1, 5.1, 5.2.

Presenter Bio

Dr. Joyce Juntune is a renowned consultant, trainer, professor, and lecturer with more than 45 years of experience in the field of education. She is an instructional associate professor at Texas A&M University, and she teaches graduate-level courses in her expert areas of intelligence, child and adolescent development, educational psychology, giftedness, and creativity. She has focused the majority of her career on the areas of intelligence and gifted and talented education. Dr. Juntune has served as the executive director for the National Association for Gifted Children and the Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A&M University.