Hi Nelky - asking questions that require students to utilize previously learned concepts requires them to use critical thinking skills - great work!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
HI Pamela - Isn't that the coolest thing to watch?? Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Taijmattie- Thanks for your post to the forum. You shared very effective questioning strategies!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Questioning techniques that have successfully engaged students in class discussions include describing processes, contemplating solutions and defending a judgment via divergent questioning. Pose questions that are concise, involves all students and provide feedback without repeating answers. Replace one-on-one questioning with interactive group discussions and shift from leading to facilitating the discussion. All students should have the opportunity to interact with the teacher and other students.
I will often ask if anyone else can add to an answer that has been given by a student. Sometime there isn't much to add but the students think there is so they keep on talking and adding and I just sit back and watch it happen
When giving information, I tend to give information requiring some of the information already given. That way I can then ask a question in the middle of the informatiobn being given to the students, and at the same time I can evaluate there undestanding of the subject that has been already given. Other times I have just made a jerpordy game.
Hi Marion- Thanks for your post to the forum. Learning to facilitate Socratic questioning sessions takes some practice, but as you mention, students really do get involved actively. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I have always used the socratic method of teaching. Students become much more interested in learning if they are asked questions and actively participate in the class discussion.
I go over homework and have them read the question and answer outloud so they get over their nervousness of speaking in class and they hear the answers verbally more than once.
I'm a fan of asking a rhetorical question to get the thinking process going, then following up with a narrow/targeted critical thinking open ended question directed to a specific person with redirects and links to responses to others.
It's like volleyball, you serve to get the process started, then volley between participants on the court until the set is completed. :-)
I frequently ask students to relate their own experiences in class. Most of my students are adult learners and they often have work experiences to relate to the topic.
Hi April- Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, Students really enjoy relating what they are learning to their previos experiences. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I personally ask questions that meet the students where they are in life so that they can tie textbook content together with their lives.
By just asking the class what they gained for new information out of a lecture will open a discussion that brings out many of the key points of the lecture that re-enforces the information.
Hi Elaine - when working in teams students ususally are more willing to participate than when they are just one person in a large classroom. Great work! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Katherine - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are definitely using questioning very effectively! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I like to play the "what if..." game. So, I give a scenerio and have the class fill in that they would do. Or, I ask each student to give me a step in a certain process so they all can participate.
I start my day br asking questions on the previous day lesson. Students can usually answer the question and then I will lead the answer into the next lesson.When I do this students feel like it is ok to ask questions through out the day. Ialso end the lesson on open discussions tp permit questions.
Sometimes I use a team approach and ask the team to formulate questions and each team member must ask a question.
Hi Joel - As a visual learner I can always appreciate pictures in powerpoints. Susan
