Teacher present themselves to be the ones with all the answers, but as they talk to students they begin asking questions as if they have doubt about what they are talking about. Asking questions gives feedback to the teachers and gets students involved. In Joanne Chesley's video, Asking better questions in the classroom, she discusses the difference between an open-ended question and a closed-ended question. A open-ended question leaves the form of the answer up to the person who is responding, which gives the opportunity for more brainstorming about the questions. A closed-ended questions structure a response for the students and can be answer by a very brief phrase. As teachers, we have to be more careful about how we ask a question to students, so that we can get the response we are expecting from the students. When I was in high school, my teachers would always ask us closed-ended questions but would want us to respond as an open-ended response. It really does make a difference with how you ask a question.
In Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom, Maryellen Weimer, PhD, gives three ways to ask better questions. The first is Prepare questions, always have questions ready for the students, so that way neither the teacher nor the students get confused. Being prepared early makes asking questions a lot easier so you can get the answer that you are expecting from the student. The second idea is to Play with questions, which means to leave it unanswered so that students can put on their thinking caps. Students can write the question in notes along with ideas pertaining to the question. The final idea is to Preserve good questions,and good questions can be kept and saved for later. Good questions can be used on a test or quiz. We need to ask good questions so that students see the importance of asking questions. We as educators don't have all that answers to the questions that students may ask, but we will do our best to answer them.
All of these strategies will help me make improvements when asking questions as a teacher. I want the students to get more involved and have their minds thinking critically about the questions being asked. I will be using these techniques in the future. As stated in EDM310, "Questions are more important than answers."
"Teacher present themselves to be the ones with all the answers, but as they talk to students they begin asking questions as if they have doubt about what they are talking about." Teachers, not teacher. What is the purpose of this sentence. Is it a description of how most teachers behave/ Is it a suggestion as to how they should behave? Is it a complaint about how they behave? I am not sure. Are you quoting someone? If so, exactly why did they say this? Why are you including it? Where is your citation?
ReplyDelete"In Joanne Chesley's video, Asking better questions in the classroom, she discusses the difference between an open-ended question and a closed-ended question." A better way to write this would be: Joanne Chesley discusses the difference between an open-ended question and a closed-ended question in her video, Asking Better Questions in the Classroom.
"A open-ended question leaves the form of the answer..." An, not A
"A closed-ended questions structure a response for the students and can be answer by a very brief phrase. " question, not questions; structures, not structure; answered, not answer
"we ask a question to students,..." of, not to
"In Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom, Maryellen Weimer, PhD, gives three ways to ask better questions." You need to tell us more than what the title says.
"The second idea is to Play with questions, which means to leave it unanswered so that students can put on their thinking caps." The antecedent of it is plural (questions) so you must replace it with them.
Dr. Strange on this blog post, I had gone to the writing center as you suggested and I had Bailey to proofread this post before I submitted it. I do take responsibility for my work but when she read it, we made correction and I posted actually how we had discuss in our meeting. Although, I did forget to put the "s" on teacher in the first paragraph. I thought I had done a good job on this post. I hope to get better each time I post.
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