{"id":276650,"date":"2025-05-17T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/questions-students-can-ask-themselves-before-during-after-teaching\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:25","slug":"questions-students-can-ask-themselves-before-during-after-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/questions-students-can-ask-themselves-before-during-after-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions Students Can Ask Themselves Before, During, &#038; After Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" alt=\"75 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves Before, During, And After Teaching\" class=\"wp-image-51041 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-750x563.png 750w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching.png\" alt=\"75 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves Before, During, And After Teaching\" class=\"wp-image-51041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Questions-Students-Can-Ask-Themselves-Before-During-And-After-Teaching-750x563.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>by <strong>Terry Heick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are there questions students can ask themselves while you\u2019re teaching? Questions that can guide and support their own thinking and awareness before, during, and after your teaching?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this assumes you\u2019re \u2018teaching\u2019 a traditional \u2018lesson\u2019 with a learning objective or target. If not, this may not be very helpful. This is also a list that, like many I\u2019ve done, could get unnecessarily long fast. In some ways, this functions something like a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/learning\/what-is-a-kwl-chart\/\">KWL chart<\/a><\/strong>. The idea here, however, is less about brainstorming before or after a lesson, but rather having questions useful to guide the student so they can know what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>A few tips to get started:<\/p>\n<p>There are way, way too many questions here to be usefully packaged as they are. Cherry-pick which of these are helpful and add others you think could be useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll likely need to reword them for the students you teach. I absolutely would not simply hand them to students and hope they \u2018figure it out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You might consider scaffolding or front-loading them early in the year for the pay-off later in the year<\/p>\n<p>You could also consider differentiating them\u2013assigning specific questions to specific students at specific times based on what you think might help<\/p>\n<p>You could model answers or do think-alouds so students understand how and why to use them<\/p>\n<p>Make the questions work for your students rather than the other way around<\/p>\n<p>Have students that \u2018get it\u2019 more quickly than others share some of their responses so students can benefit from hearing thinking in \u2018student-friendly\u2019 language<\/p>\n<p><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">75 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves <\/strong><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Before, During, And After <\/strong><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before Teaching &amp; Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. What\u2019s being learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the topic? Now, what exactly is being learned within that topic?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does it seem like the teacher wants us to focus on? What are they emphasizing?<\/p>\n<p>Is this is a concept, competency, or skill? Something else? Is it specific, like a skill, or vague like a concept or idea?<\/p>\n<p>Is this review of something we\u2019ve already learned, extending previous learning, or new learning?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What seems most important about what\u2019s being learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, what\u2019s the \u2018big idea\u2019 of what\u2019s being learned?<\/p>\n<p>What is the teacher explicitly stating is important? What are they implying is important?<\/p>\n<p>What about this can help me grow as a person?<\/p>\n<p>If I only learn one thing from this lesson, what should it be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. What do I already know and not know about this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How does what\u2019s being learned fit into what I already know?<\/p>\n<p>What other \u2018things\u2019 (content areas, real-world thinking and jobs, etc.) is this connected to?<\/p>\n<p>Where have I seen this or something like it before (inside and\/or outside of the classroom)?<\/p>\n<p>What do others seem to know about this or \u2018things\u2019 like it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Why is this important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why is learning this important?<\/p>\n<p>What is the value of this to me as a person?<\/p>\n<p>How do others use this \u2018in the real world\u2019 and how might that change how I approach the lesson or activity?<\/p>\n<p>How do I think I might use this is in my daily life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What is my role in learning this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do I need to be prepared (knowledge, vocab, materials, schedule, etc.)? What resources will be available to me?<\/p>\n<p>What mindset will benefit me the most?<\/p>\n<p>How can I use my strengths to learn this?<\/p>\n<p>What do I need to do in order to learn this? What happens if I don\u2019t?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>During Teaching &amp; Learning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. What\u2019s going on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going well?<\/p>\n<p>What makes sense?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s interesting?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s surprising?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What seems most important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s being emphasized?<\/p>\n<p>SNCC: What\u2019s simple? What\u2019s new? What\u2019s confusing? What\u2019s complex?<\/p>\n<p>How can I separate what\u2019s \u2018new,\u2019 what\u2019s \u2018confusing,\u2019 and what\u2019s actually \u2018complex\u2019 and not confuse the three?<\/p>\n<p>How could I concept what\u2019s being learned to indicate a hierarchy or priority?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong><strong>What am I doing to help me learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What specific questions do I have?<\/p>\n<p>How can I document questions and\/or the most important ideas for future reference? Visual notes? Combination notes? Do I know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachthought.com\/literacy\/how-to-take-cornell-notes\/\"><strong>how to take Cornell Notes<\/strong><\/a>? Record the audio? Simply \u2018pay attention\u2019 and \u2018do the work\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>When learning this, what are others doing (or what have others done in the past)?<\/p>\n<p>What observable \u2018things\u2019 should I be \u2018doing\u2019 or not doing to help me learn?<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>What is my mind doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How is it helping me or could it be better help me? Where is my attention as I learn? <\/p>\n<p>Where do I need curiosity? Self-discipline? Enthusiasm? Patience? An open mind?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s my mindset\u2013has it changed since the beginning of the lesson?<\/p>\n<p>What am I thinking or feeling and how it is affecting my learning?<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0 What is this connected to? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does this remind me of? Where do others use this in the real world?<\/p>\n<p>What patterns am I seeing?<\/p>\n<p>What have I learned previously that can help me learn this and what do I think can or should be \u2018taught\u2019 next?<\/p>\n<p>What do others seem to be learning?<\/p>\n<p><strong>After Teaching &amp; Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. How did that go?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What was most interesting?<\/p>\n<p>What did I learn? Did I seem to learn what lesson was designed for me to learn? If not, what did I learn?<\/p>\n<p>How might what I \u2018missed\u2019 affect me (in the classroom and in life)?<\/p>\n<p>What do I still \u2018need help\u2019 with? Who can I talk to about the lesson to review key ideas or clarify misunderstandings?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What seems most important about what was learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What seems less important and what seems more important about what was learned? Or is this something where what was learned doesn\u2019t have a clear hierarchy?<\/p>\n<p>After the lesson, is what seems most important any different than how things seemed before and during the lesson? How and why?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s \u2018less important\u2019 about what was learned and how does it relate to what\u2019s \u2018most important\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>How does my life personally change the value of what was learned (and any hierarchy therein)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong><strong>What should I do with what I\u2019ve learned and how should I respond to what I didn\u2019t learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What should I do with what I learned and know?<\/p>\n<p>Who should I \u2018tell\u2019 or share this with?<\/p>\n<p>Who would care and\/or benefit the most?<\/p>\n<p>What will I be able to do with this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Based on what we learned today, what might we learn tomorrow?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where does what we\u2019re learning seem to be \u2018heading\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>When we\u2019ve learned things like this in the past, what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>What could I learn about this tomorrow with help? By myself?<\/p>\n<p>What might someone who knows this better than I do \u2018learn next\u2019?<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. How have I been changed by what I\u2019ve learned?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do I feel about this content? Interested? Enthusiastic? Curious? Bored? Indifferent?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s different about me? Something new that I know? Something new that I can do? Is this a small change or a new way of seeing things? 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