The document discusses differentiation through questioning skills. It provides examples of using questioning to differentiate for different types of students during math fraction lessons. Good questioning skills can support, engage, and assess students at different levels. Case studies show how questioning can be used to challenge or scaffold students including struggling learners and advanced learners. The document encourages teachers to get started using questioning to differentiate instruction in their own classrooms.

1. What’s in a Question? Questioning as a means of differentiating Beth Slaboda

2. What IS Differentiation?

3. Differentiation is… “…maximizing the learning that can happen over what traditionally happens as ‘one size fits all’ lessons.” ~ Rick Wormeli, author of Fair isn’t Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom

5. What Differentiation SHOULD Look Like…

6. What Differentiation FEELS Like…

7. How can we start to differentiate tomorrow? (and not feel burned out in the process…)

8. Questioning Skills

9. What ARE Questioning Skills?

10. What Do (good) Questioning Skills DO?

11. Good Questioning Skills…

15. Good Questioning = Differentiation

17. Case Study 1/4 +2/4 = ?

18. Case Study 1/4 +2/4 = ? + = ?

19. Case Study 1/4 +2/4 = ? + = ?

20. Case Study 1/4 +2/4 = ? + = ? Add the Numerators Keep the Denominator

39. Get Started!

40. Get Started!

42. Credits Rick Wormeli quote http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/ifc080422.html Teacher with student www.principaltutoring.com/ Frustrated teacher http://sammerrin.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/teaching-keyword-frustration/ Picture of ‘Erin’ http://www.texasvirtualschool.org/TVSopportunities.htm Whiteboard image http://www.selftrading.co.uk/dry-wipe-whiteboard-felt-notice-board Picture of ‘Amanda’ http://www.thesingingprofessor.info/singing101-1.htm Picture of ‘Joe’ http://www.successwithetiquette.com/about2.html Nancy Willard quote http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/questions/