Eclectic Technology

As teachers many of us spend time reflecting on our lessons. Do we provide our learners with time to reflect? This post shares the author's personal observations on the value of reflection as well as ten questions that you may want to use with your learners. Three of the questions are below.

* Where did you encounter struggle today, and what did you do to deal with it?

* What made you curious today?

* What about your thinking, learning, or work today brought you the most satisfaction? Why?

There is also a link to two other resources that are focused on reflective questions for the writing process. One of the resources is focused the writing process with primary and intermediate writers and the second is on the writing process but towards more advanced writers. These two resources are located here.

This could be used as a great anchor chart for students to see when when reading text and preparing to respond to the text. Although the title says 20 questions I count 21 questions on this visual, questions that are require critical thinking skills, questions that may be used with a variety of texts (as required by Common Core).

The questions are in three categories (information below quoted from the article):

* Within the text - summaries, sequence of events, conflict/resolution, etc

* Beyond the text - Inferencing, implicit ideas, evaluation, etc.

* About the text - Author purpose, author style, characterization, etc.

The post also relates the areas to Bloom's Taxonomy. You might also look at the question relative to Depth of Knowledge.