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Questions to Support Discourse

Teachers use a variety of question types in their lessons every day.  While these questions vary with respect to the level of thinking required, each type of question provides the teacher with necessary information to make in the moment instructional decisions.

 

Within each lesson, Carnegie Learning provides Questions to Support Discourse. The Questions to Support Discourse assess students’ sense-making and reasoning, gauge what they know, and generate evidence of student learning. Use these questions as students are working together or when they are sharing responses as a class.

 

 

Questions to Support Discourse are categorized into four question types:

 

QUESTION TYPE

WHAT IS THIS TYPE OF QUESTION?

WHY SHOULD I USE THIS TYPE OF QUESTION?

Gathering
  • Questions to help students make sense of the situation, recall facts, definitions, or procedures.
  • Use these questions to determine what students know.

Probing
  • Questions to prompt students to clarify or explain their reasoning and articulate their solutions and methods
  • Use these questions to help you understand the reasoning behind students’ answers.

Seeing structure
  • Questions to support students to see mathematical structures and make connections among mathematical ideas and relationships.
  • Use these questions to make mathematical structures explicit to students.

Reflecting and Justifying
  • Questions to encourage students to reveal an understanding of their reasoning and make arguments for the validity of their work.
  • Use these questions to encourage reflection and justification.

 

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