Thinking Through Quality Questioning ─ Deepening Student Engagement

Education consultants Walsh and Sattes are longtime students and advocates of quality questioning for students, teachers, and school leaders, and the authors of Quality Questioning: Research-Based Strategies to Engage Every Learner (Corwin, 2005). Incorporating recent reflections on their work in classroom questioning, their latest text introduces a new "Framework for Thinking Through Quality Questioning" that includes teacher behaviors, each connected to specific student thinking outcomes and behaviors. Coverage includes an overview of the new framework followed by chapters on each of its five components: framing quality questions to stimulate student thinking, strengthening students' thinking-to-learn behaviors, using formative feedback to advance student learning, cultivating and nourishing student responsibility for learning, and using quality questioning to create a classroom culture where students and teachers work together to advance thinking and knowing. For educators of all levels, from kindergarten through university. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)