{"id":2127,"date":"2020-03-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2020-02-04T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:01:18","slug":"how-to-focus-a-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2020\/03\/01\/how-to-focus-a-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Group Questioning Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2184 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/studentgroup-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/studentgroup-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/studentgroup-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/studentgroup.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Working in a small group\u00a0 gives\u00a0 students a chance to practice using high level thinking skills. Develop more complex student answering skills by working <em>down the list<\/em>\u00a0 to use increasingly more complete\/complex questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><u>Recall: <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to remember details from reading or a discussion. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Answers the questions who, what, when, where, why<strong>, <\/strong>how. <\/span><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Comprehension: <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to select details. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Answers questions about retelling and summarizing.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Application: <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to begin to see relationships. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Answers questions\u00a0 &#8216;how is ___like ___?&#8217; &amp; &#8216;why is ____ significant?&#8217; <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Analysis: <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to separate facts. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Answers questions about classifying, comparing and outlining.<\/span><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Synthesis: <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to elaborate or combine ideas and create something new. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Answers questions about predictions.<\/span><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Evaluation:\u00a0 <\/u><\/strong>Calls for students to make judgments and share their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,322,47,24,16,50,327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expectations-misbehavior-communication-clarifying-monitoring","category-metacognition","category-para-educators","category-ideas-websites","category-teacher-tips","category-thinking-questioning-strategies","category-volunteer-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}