Questioning sessions can be used as review sessions before a test!
Questioning is a good way to review and identify what your students have retained from the lesson or lessons. It is also a good way to build additional lessons or review sessions. For the instructor it is also a way to assess how well they are teaching.
Questions can be used to find out how much students know, to assess their progress and deeper understanding, to promote their thinking and aid the transfer of knowledge into new contexts. Whether face-to-face or in a online learning environment, questioning is the means to achieve formative as well as summative assessment of student learning. Online delivery requires different types of questions, in forums or chats, for example.
HI Alexis- Welcome to ED 103 and thanks for your post to the forum! Especially in the discipline that you teach, I agree, the "Why" questions are really important. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
Questioning can be a learning tool by asking Why not what. It is a way to anaylse and ask a student to think in depth. I often use questions to get a whole room envolved in a sequence of events- the 12 steps of yeast dough production. When they give them out of turn, I ask why does that make sense?
Questioning encourages students to engage material in new ways...it can engender ownership of material, and lead students to better embrace the learning process
Its a good assessment of what your class understands and doesn't understand. It gives you helpful tips on what to improve on during demos and lectures.
You can quickly find out where the students are at knowledge wise. Then continue on subject questions to help them understand the subject.
Hi Jennifer - Welcome to ED 103! You are doing a great job at keeping your students engaged as they are questioned. You're right- done in the right way, even assessment can be fun! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
As an instructor of students with various backgrounds and learning styles I need to engage many students and enhance their leaning experience. I can choose questions ahead of time that will correlate to a current topic then present them as not only verbal ones to answer individually, but also as written or illustrated that can then be turned into a research mission or maybe a group brainstorm. Encouraging further lines of questions from the students. Using multiple techniques can capture the attention of students quickly and can even make finding answers or more questions fun. By having fun the teacher can create interest in any subject, which in turn can develop a students desire to learn and engage.
Questioning sessions I have found will jump start the problem solver in all of us. The class really gets involved when an answer to one particular question poses new problems to consider.
When done as a method of guiided discovery then, yes, they can. You have to have an idea of where you want the discussion/topic to go.
Another benefit of questioning sessions is that students can see each-other improve and learn from each others' learning strategies.
it will act like a review for the other students
Hi Guy- Thanks for some great ideas on encoraging student particpation! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I think that it has to do with building a bridge between the "shy" students that may not want to answer. It also may kind of limit the "know-it-alls" a little in the fact that the delivery method can be the key. I ask general questions to the group as a whole in a way that coaches ask questions looking for a group repsonse and it builds an excitement level. I also think that building the topic is important. If you are wanting to get to the 5th step, getting students to answer 1-4 can be a tool that may trigger the responses of the timid.
Questioning can draw students out through using the knowledge they already possess to find new information.
