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.
Jose – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has several good ideas that could easily be implemented and would have an impact on the learning in the classroom.
Tanya – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
She was an terrific and engaging presenter.
Olivia – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the different ways that the teacher can help the student ask higher thinking questions
Angelica – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
I feel that it is an eye opener for the struggling teacher who wants to get more personal as far as questioning, like zone in into the students’ interests
Jennifer – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
Enjoyed the breakdown of the videos and information.
Jesus – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
I believe that this course allowed me to open up my mind to other possibilities in the classroom. Students need to be curious and that curiosity can be developed in the classroom.
Christina – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner) –
Great questioning strategies! I like the idea of using it for discipline as well.
Cynthia – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner) –
I found that Questioning and Inquiry must be done to enhance the students’ learning and have them come with questions themselves.
Christy – PFLUGERVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
this was nice to help think of ways to have higher thinking questions
Mary – BEAUMONT ISD (verified owner) –
I heard some great ideas that I look forward to using in my classroom!