Sunday, September 29, 2013

blog post #6

What questions do we ask? How do we ask?
Questions are a very important when becoming a teacher . We have to be able to ask our students questions that challenge them . It’s a very important role for us to be able to plan ahead to know the questions we will ask. Taking our time to allow the students to think about how they will answer is important. Blooms taxonomy chart was helpful in understanding the best way to ask questions.


What do we need to know about asking questions to be an effective teacher?
This article three ways to ask better questions in the classroom is very helpful. It gives you three simple ways to improve question asking skills in the classroom. You have to be careful when asking questions so you don’t offend your students and can end up doing more harm them good. Try to prepare your questions, play with questions, and preserve the good questions.


Prepare your questions?
We as teachers make have to make sure we are actually prepared for our students to ask questions don’t let them see you unprepared. Most students will ask questions off of impulse. IF we prepare ahead of time it will allow us to have plenty of time to think these question through. We not only want to ask questions but we want to have questions that will improve our students thinking. IF you are asking the wrong questions you will notice because no students will attempt to answer.


Play with Questions
Leaving questions unanswered just to come back to the same question later in your lecture is a great way to keep students involved. It gives them just enough time to fully understand the question that is being asked. It will also allow them to make notes and get ideas about what you have actually asked so they can answer the question fully . Using space or time between a question allows your kids to challenge themselves to get better.


Preserve the good questions.
Letting your students ask good questions should always be allowed but when you have a student ask a good question your should write it down and save it for future use. That way you have these questions available for future use. This also give you the chance to bring up these questions in future lectures. We always need to encourage our students to ask questions because if they don’t ask they will never know.

3 comments:

  1. "This article three ways to ask better questions in the classroom is very helpful." Awkward. Maybe you mean The article "Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the classroom is very helpful.

    "You have to be careful when asking questions so you don’t offend your students and can end up doing more harm them good." Give me an example.

    "We as teachers make have to make sure we are actually prepared for our students to ask questions don’t let them see you unprepared." Awkward. Rewrite this sentence (or sentences).

    "Most students will ask questions off of impulse. " ...of of impulse? Why not impulsively instead?

    "Leaving questions unanswered just to come back to the same question later in your lecture is a great way to keep students involved. " Not lecturing is an even better way to keep them involved. Especially if they have to work on answering questions in a group or individually.


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  2. While reading your post, I noticed a lot of grammatical errors. Dr. Strange has already hit most of them. Go back and reread. Some of your "If's" are spelled "IF". In the first paragraph, it would have been nice to see an example of how Bloom's Taxonomy charts were helpful to you. Lastly, try adding some pictures to your posts. It will make it more readable to the eye.

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  3. Agreeing with those above, I noticed a lot of grammatical errors. They have already addressed the ones I see. You should probably proofread before you post. It happens, I had to understand the same thing. For what I did read and could understand, I liked your thoughts about asking the right questions and how to do so. Good Work

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