Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning: Practical Strategies for Developing Students' Critical Thinking, Paperback

Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning equips teachers with effective questioning strategies and:

• Challenges students to think critically, as well as explore their curiosity and imagination.
• Explores the power of questioning to transform the classroom.
• Utilizes Bloom's taxonomy as the key to formulating higher level questions.
• Includes questioning strategies for students' assignments, assessments, day-to-day activities, and classroom discussions.
• Helps make lively, in-depth dialogue the norm.

Teachers must create a culture in which students expect and can engage in rigorous, higher level questioning and discussions, and are comfortable enough that they can ask those questions of one another and themselves.

Todd Stanley is the author of many teacher education books, including Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students and Authentic Learning: Real-World Experiences That Build 21st-Century Skills. He was a classroom teacher for 18 years and was National Board Certified. He is currently the gifted services coordinator for Pickerington Local Schools, OH.