Chapter 5: Planning (Content to Questions, Questions to Skills)

*Guiding questions are essential to successful partnering! Describe the characteristics of "good" guiding questions. Try and think in terms of the lessons you will be creating for this course and for your future students.* Guiding questions must make sense to the students. As a teacher is preparing they must see it from a student's point of view. Also, all of the guided questions must not have cut and dry "simple" answers. The question should be open ended and the answers should be in depth and full of thought. Also, the questions are usually about a why and then followed by a how. Also the guiding questions should be a form of assessment for the partnering teacher. Any kind of curriculum can be turned into guiding questions. In fact, when introducing a new unit, guided questions should be used so that students are able to voice what they know and then the teaching should come after the teacher sees where the students are as far as understanding the material.