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Quality Questioning
Training can also be designed around the book, Quality Questioning, published by Corwin Press in 2005.
After 15 years of experience in working with teachers across the country, Walsh and Sattes wrote this book, incorporating the latest resources on student questions, as well as the new, revised Bloom Taxonomy. Teacher success stories and sample questions are included throughout the book. This would make an excellent study group book!

Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking (QUILT)
is a quality professional development on effective classroom questioning.

The content is based on research about effective teaching.
The process models effective teaching and questioning. It is based on sound professional development strategies, in that follow-up (interim meetings and teachers observing other teachers) is incorporated into the process.
Implementation of QUILT depends upon the creation of a community of learners among teachers on the staff as they learn together.
The topic is relevant to the needs of every teacher; QUILT is immediately applicable.

Training in QUILT involves an initial three-day workshop followed by interim meetings—throughout the following year or two—and regular visits to classrooms to observe and give feedback. The focus is on creating classrooms where students are:

Engaged in meaningful work
Deepening their understandings—through discussion with peers and teachers
Challenged to think at higher levels (away from rote thinking or predominant “recall of factual information”)
Asking questions—because they care about the topic, are interested in the work, and are speculating and questioning their own learning

For more information about training in this nationally validated professional development process, contact Enthused Learning

Data from a four-state field test indicated that QUILT-trained teachers were employing what they’d learned to change classroom practice and that students in QUILT classrooms were asking more questions that reflected better thinking.
(US Department of Education. From Promise to Practice: Stories from the Regional Educational Laboratories, p.10, 1996.)

Questioning to Stimulate Thinking is a series of videotapes on effective questioning, produced by the Video Journal in Education. This series takes the viewer to a QUILT training, conducted by the national trainers and developers Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes. It also takes the viewer into classrooms where teachers and students use effective questioning strategies. See elementary, middle, and high school teachers apply these strategies.

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