Description: Ask targeted questions to enhance students' reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms. Use a four-phase questioning sequence to help students make claims, build sound arguments, and provide evidence to support their points. You'll discover how to coordinate sequences to elicit students' prior knowledge, prompt the discovery of new information, and deepen and extend students' learning in all content areas.
Review Quotes: "Theories and frameworks are thinking tools that help the human mind deal with situations otherwise overwhelming in their complexity. With his questioning sequences framework, Marzano and Simms provide teachers with a powerful and flexible tool to help them shepherd students along the difficult path from initial exposure to real understanding of a topic. More importantly, he reminds us all to eschew myopic arguments about whether specific teaching tactics do or don't cause learning, and instead focus on how they can be combined and orchestrated into effective instructional designs." -- Ian Beatty "Assistant Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"