The 16 Week Challenge - Week 10

 

Welcome to week 10 of our Fall 2024 16 Week Teaching Challenge!

If you're new to the challenge, take a minute and read The Big Launch post here. You can opt to get caught up on previous weeks by checking out the "16 Week Challenge" link to the bottom right of this page, or you're welcome to just jump right in and join us!

Week 10: Oct. 21 - Practice Using Questions to Promote Student Learning

The challenge is to put into practice what you learned last week by planning to use questions to pormote student learning in upcoming lessons. (And feel free to revisit last week's post if you need a refresh on how to do that.)

What does this look like? For at least 3 lessons, you'll:

1. Internalize the lesson. Be sure to identify its purpose, the heart, the student work that aligns with the purpose, and how independently that work is supposed to be done.
2. Identify a sequence of questions in the heart of the lesson. 
3. Read through the questions and plan: What will you do to ensure the questions are used to promote student learning? What will you not do to make sure a teaching move doesn't detract from that?
4. When you teach the lesson, gather the student work that was completed. Ideally with your coach, your grade level, or a colleague, consider: How do you see that using questions in this way pressed for students to learn more from the text?

Completed that? Fantastic! You just completed your Week 10 Teaching Challenge. If you're working for that small prize, you can log your success here, and be sure to check back next week - Oct. 28 - for Week 11!

Here's to simply teaching well,