Best Practices and Tips for Questioning in the Classroom | Origin: ED114
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I do a lot of probing and redirecting. When students dont provide the proper answer, I rephrase questions and probe by redirecting and eventually reaching the desired answer.
Wait time and reinforcment add to student confidence
Involve students in the evaluation and reflection of the classroom questioning process by choosing a monitor to be responsible for tracking how many questions are: teacher or student, open or closed, factual or conceptual.
This shows students that you want to improve the quality of your questioning and that of theirs too.
Learning my students learning styles will help me understand as well help them when it comes to the different types of questions ask of them. Make sure I give the right amount of wait time for the response.
I have experienced breaking the ice with personal introduction. That can get learners interested in the their classmates. Then go to the topic ask general questions to class how would they use this class information. allow wait time after each response.
Learning about wait-time was really interesting. I always need time to formulate a response, so its natural for me to also allow students to fully articulate a response. I can definitely see how it can influence a class environment.
Wait time is important after asking questions and getting a response from students.
I appreciated the examples of techniques to use in the classroom to further enhance questioning during instruction, including redirection, probing, reinforcement, and praise. I also appreciated the tips for questionsing, especially regarding wait time, as just providing students with a few more seconds can have a positive effect on their understanding and participation.
I do consider this second module has been very useful for me similar that it was the first one. It has facilitated me a much better understanding on not only how I must consider questioning the students to improve their learning process, but also by providing to me some very useful techniques and tips that I will undoubtedly incorporate to my different lectures.
As an overall conclusion for this ED 114 "Questioning in the classroom" course, It has been very useful!! It has clarified to me several aspects on "the way of questioning to my students during my lectures" that I must consider how to better incorporate them in my different classes I am responsible to deliver.
Definitively, It is going to help me on improving my skills and effectiveness as an Instructor and as a result, to facilitate the learning process of my students
THANKS
Antonio
Depending on the students social confort level the process of getting most or all of the students engaged may take serval days to weeks. You would have to start with question you know they can answer and work up from there.
Richard Ullery
