Although homework has been the source of continual debate, it is an important and often overlooked component of the learning cycle. When teachers carefully and purposefully consider the role of homework in furthering curriculum goals, they can turn a homework task into treasure.
Homework is just one of those things that I firmly believe in the value of giving. However, it is really important to make sure that the homework does serve a purpose and is not just “busywork.”
This article has some good perspectives that I found refreshing.
A taxonomy of thinking assists the teacher in determining the type of thinking in which the students are to be involved. It also guides the teacher in more clearly understanding what is to be learned and how the students will demonstrate that learning. Further, a taxonomy guides the teacher in the…
OFICA is an acronym for a questioning pattern designed to encourage higher order thinking during class discussion.
Open-ended questions
- Are questions that produce many “right” answers.
- Ask students to build a common frame of reference or a factual base from which they can abstract concepts and generalizations.
Focus questions
- Bring attention to the specific concepts that are the intent of the discussion.
Interpretive questions
- Ask students to build meaning by noting relationships among concepts and making connection with previous experience
Capstone questions
- Ask students to tie concepts together by summarizing, generalizing, stating the big idea, or headlining the discussion.
Application questions
- Ask students to consider, “What does this matter to me? How might I use what I have learned?”
- Allow students to use generalizations they have drawn in new creative ways.
OFICA is an acronym for a questioning pattern designed to encourage higher order thinking during class discussion.
Open-ended questions
- Are questions that produce many “right” answers.
- Ask students to build a common frame of reference or a factual base from which they can abstract…
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