MANSW Education Consultant Ruth Glasgow will be the presenter.
In the engaging students in higher order thinking workshop participants will develop their skills in using higher order thinking techniques to create questions for understanding and content knowledge, in terms of building students’ conceptual understanding.
Questioning is a powerful instructional strategy to engage students. Provoking higher order thinking through the questions you ask will elicit reflection and help students construct their own meaning for mathematics. Student responses will help the teacher assess what students know and what the next instructional steps might be.
Participants will develop their skills in using a variety of questioning techniques for understanding and content knowledge, keeping the big mathematical ideas in mind, in terms of students’ conceptual understanding.
