About the Book
Use effective questions to advance student thinking, learning, and achievement!
Authors Walsh and Sattes provide an in-depth look at how quality questions can transform classrooms.Drawing on two decades of research on teacher effectiveness, the authorsoffer strategies that engage all students in the teacher s questions and prompt students to generate their own questions.Quality Questioningincludes:
A complete framework for preparing and presenting questions, prompting and processing student responses, teaching students to generate questions, and reflecting on questioning practice
Checklists for classroom applications
Reproducibles, rubrics, resources, evaluation tools, and more
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About the Author :
Learn more about Jackie Walsh's PD offerings
Jackie Walsh is an independent educational consultant who partners with educators across the country to enhance teaching and leading in classrooms, schools, and districts. Her passion and primary area of expertise is questioning for both student and adult learning. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie is also the lead consultant for the Alabama Best Practices Center, which affords her the opportunity to work with networks of school teams, district teams, instructional partners, and superintendents.
Jackie s early experience as a high school social studies teacher contributed to her passion for questioning. As a designer and facilitator of professional learning for teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators, she links quality questioning practices not only to student thinking and learning but also to adult learning and reflection. Her commitment is to collaborative design that customizes learning to the context of the learners. Her experience spans work in K-12, higher education, a regional research laboratory, and a state department of education.
The author and co-author of numerous books and articles focused on quality questioning, Jackie seeks to make research and best practice accessible to practitioners. Her books, co-authored with Beth Sattes, include: Quality Questioning, 2nd Edition (2017), Questioning for Classroom Discussion (2015), Thinking Through Quality Questioning (2011), Leading Through Quality Questioning (2010), and Quality Questioning, 1st Edition (2005), She received her A.B. from Duke University, M.A.T. from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. Follow Jackie on Twitter @Question2Think; email, walshja@aol.com.
Learn more about Beth Sattes' PD offerings
Beth Dankert Sattesis aco-developer with Jackie Acree Walshof Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking (QUILT), a nationally validated professional development program on effective questioning. They are also co-authors of Inside School Improvement (2000) and co-presenters of the Video Journal in Education series Questioning to Stimulate Thinking (1999). These two former classroom teachers have trained hundreds of administrators and teachers across the nation in effective questioning. Their other joint ventures have focused on creating effective professional development for educators, sharing leadership for continuous school improvement, and creating a culture for high-performance learning communities. A recent example of their work is the design and delivery of professional development for school improvement specialists consultants or staff who work to develop the capacity of schools to improve achievement for all students. They have also developed professional development modules on improving school culture (for the Southern Regional Education Board) and leading learning communities (for the Alabama Leadership Academy). Beth Dankert Sattes holds a bachelor s degree in psychology from Vanderbilt University and a master s degree in early childhood special education from Peabody College. Both Sattes and Walsh have served as faculty for the National Staff Development Council s Academy.
Contact Beth Sattesat beth@enthusedlearning.com.
Review :
"The authors present a solid framework and then take readers to increasing specificity about what good questioning is and how to use it in the classroom.Clear examples and useful tools are provided throughout to guide use by individual teachers or by teams of teachers in a school."--Robert E. Blum, Director, Center for School and District Improvement"
"Walsh and Sattes's thoughtful scholarship takes shape here as an invaluable, professional-development resource for teachers.Quality Questioning provides techniques and strategies that have the power to enrich the learning process in America's classrooms and increase student achievement."--Gaston Caperton, Former Governor of West Virginia"
"A practical guide to help classroom teachers across America enrich instruction with quality classroom questions. The authors provide good examples of probing questions that will engage the student. I have read and reviewed thousands of NAEP questions, in thirteen years as the governing board's executive director, looking for just such thinking questions as are bundled up in this book into a neat package for teachers."--Roy Truby, Former Executive Director of the National Assessment Governing Board"
"The skilful use of questioning in a classroom is vital to student engagement and learning.A teacher's use of questions to promote thinking and engagementresults ina classroom in which students are involved in deep conceptual learning. The authors fully explore this important topic."--Charlotte Danielson, Educational Consultant"
Extremely practical in its examples and in its readability. The authors style is very reader friendly. I particularly like the questions for reflection at the end of each chapter and the quotes from teachers in the field. --Susan Hudson, School Improvement Services"
Reading this book gave me an a-ha moment on almost every other page. I have been using inquiry in my classroom for many years, and I even teach a class to other teachers about using questioning, but this book gave me more practical, research-based techniques to enhance the instruction I am giving. I have not seen a book that addresses using questioning so thoroughly, and gives such simple ideas for implementing the ideas. --Patricia Herr, Elementary School Teacher, Virginia"
"Thinking Through Quality Questioning goes beyond improvement of teacher practice to provide tools teachers can use to support students in becoming active, responsible learners through a reciprocal process of questioning, discussion, and response."--Debbie Brooks, Principal
"Without Quality Questioning, we won't discover all of the good practices we need as teachers of children and youth or as teachers of future teachers. You can find help and answers in Quality Questioning."--Mark Musick, President
Extremely practical in its examples and in its readability. The authors style is very reader friendly. I particularly like the questions for reflection at the end of each chapter and the quotes from teachers in the field. --Susan Hudson, School Improvement Services"
Reading this book gave me an a-ha moment on almost every other page. I have been using inquiry in my classroom for many years, and I even teach a class to other teachers about using questioning, but this book gave me more practical, research-based techniques to enhance the instruction I am giving. I have not seen a book that addresses using questioning so thoroughly, and gives such simple ideas for implementing the ideas. --Patricia Herr, Elementary School Teacher, Virginia"
"Thinking Through Quality Questioning goes beyond improvement of teacher practice to provide tools teachers can use to support students in becoming active, responsible learners through a reciprocal process of questioning, discussion, and response."--Debbie Brooks, Principal
"A practical guide to help classroom teachers across America enrich instruction with quality classroom questions. The authors provide good examples of probing questions that will engage the student. I have read and reviewed thousands of NAEP questions, in thirteen years as the governing board's executive director, looking for just such thinking questions as are bundled up in this book into a neat package for teachers."--Roy Truby, Former Executive Director of the National Assessment Governing Board"
"The authors present a solid framework and then take readers to increasing specificity about what good questioning is and how to use it in the classroom.Clear examples and useful tools are provided throughout to guide use by individual teachers or by teams of teachers in a school."--Robert E. Blum, Director, Center for School and District Improvement"
"The skilful use of questioning in a classroom is vital to student engagement and learning.A teacher's use of questions to promote thinking and engagementresults ina classroom in which students are involved in deep conceptual learning. The authors fully explore this important topic."--Charlotte Danielson, Educational Consultant"
"Walsh and Sattes's thoughtful scholarship takes shape here as an invaluable, professional-development resource for teachers.Quality Questioning provides techniques and strategies that have the power to enrich the learning process in America's classrooms and increase student achievement."--Gaston Caperton, Former Governor of West Virginia"
"Without Quality Questioning, we won't discover all of the good practices we need as teachers of children and youth or as teachers of future teachers. You can find help and answers in Quality Questioning."--Mark Musick, President
"Any educator who believes that our students MUST be able to think deeply in order to flourish in our world - today and in the future - will not be able to put this book down! Page after page challenges our own thinking while simultaneously offering a blueprint for developing students' higher order thinking skills."
--Sally Piepenbrink, School Improvement Specialist
"Any educator who believes that our students MUST be able to think deeply in order to flourish in our world - today and in the future - will not be able to put this book down! Page after page challenges our own thinking while simultaneously offering a blueprint for developing students' higher order thinking skills."--Sally Piepenbrink, School Improvement Specialist
