As many students across the country return to the classroom for in-person and hybrid learning, others face a choice. Will they continue in an online learning model for this school year and perhaps even longer?

Our students today are learning in an environment that is quite different than just a year ago. And, it’s likely to impact how they will learn in the future.

As we restart education after being dramatically impacted by COVID-19, we should step back a minute and ask what we have learned and what will the future of education hold. Clearly, learning has suffered in large, online environments where full classrooms of students trying to learn together virtually. 

I though it might be interesting to do an article about questioning using a series of questions to help teachers to raise the intellectual rigor in their classrooms.

When you think of the 100’s of questions that teachers ask each day, do you ever wonder how many are recall level, are answered by the same students, require memorized short answers, and are answered by “I don’t know”?
Contrary to what students think – in science we ask questions for two reasons: 1) to have students explain what they know and to evaluate the depth of their knowledge about the science concepts we are teaching and 2) to assess what student understand, listening for misconceptions or preconceptions in their responses.

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