Week 6- Questioning
This week's readings revolved around classroom questioning and questions. In the reading, it discussed the different levels of asking questions, why questions are asked and how to ask questions and handle responses. This article was super helpful for better understanding the process. The most helpful part of this article for me was handling responses. I personally am worried about this within my future classroom. You can never make students answer but you need to encourage them to participate and be engaged. I also never want a student to feel nervous or embarrassed about answering questions even if the answer is not exactly the one we were looking for. the rephrase strategy and helping the student may be very effective for my concerns. Along with asking questions on different levels it is very important to ask different kinds of questions such as direct or open ended. I feel as if I ask a lot more open ended questions but first to ask directed ones as well. The reading about Google demanding their employees to give 20% of their time was intriguing. I thought this company idea was great for employee health and it actually proved to be very beneficial to their business as well. The main focus of asking students what they want to learn is so important. I have so many times witnessed asking a teenager for their future plans and they freeze before they hesitantly answer. If we encouraged students more in schools to follow their interests and allowed and pointed them to learn more towards their own personal interests as well as the basics he needs.
Brooke, asking a mix of types of questions is important, and it is good that you already have a grasp on how to use open-ended questions. Allowing student interests to guide their learning is crucial, and I wonder how you plan to incorporate it into your ag classroom. Ag is an area that allows it to happen, and I am curious to see what ideas you have to make it a reality for your students.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I agree with all of your points; I also think it is important for students to freely ask and answer questions. My question is what are a couple of specific ways that you could encourage your students to answer your questions without feeling embarrassed?
ReplyDeleteBrooke, great points! I can relate to sometimes feeling nervous to ask questions because we don't want students to be upset if they are wrong. By creating an environment where mistakes are ok, we can help lift this burden off of students. Also, I often individually ask some nervous students how they would answer a question while doing group work... then when the class is back as a whole class working on something, you can ask that student who you already know how they will answer!
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DeleteBrooke, I loved reading the key points you took away from the readings. Do you have any strategies to ensure that questions are being asked that hit multiple levels of Bloom's?
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