"The reasons behind their questions often bowl me over with their sincerity, the fact that they really want to know the answers because its important to them, or they feel it would be important for others to know" (rightquestions.org, 4th grade teacher, Chicago). With the sources provided, there are many ways how the questions are presented as well as the answers. We have to engage the students with attention to be able to retain knowledge. In
Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom, prepare questions, play with questions, and preserve good questions can help improve with the questions that we are asking our students. All of the articles presented expresses the right criteria of asking the right questions in the classroom. Using open ended question will also help students have higher level of thinking. The higher level of thinking will help them build the self-esteem of knowledge by answering the questions instead of saying yes or no. Before teaching, it is best to have certain questions prepared ahead of time. The effective questions have to be understandable for the student to be able to answer in the right way. Open ended questions should be utilized with different solutions to form the right questions by yielding more information.
Leslie,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. We as future educators need to learn and utilize the open ended questions. From my experience (both asking and being asked) I've seen that asking open ended questions helps students gain not only confidence, but knowledge as well. These questions make students have to search for the answers which is exactly what we want them to do.
Good information, but try to elaborate a little more next time. Also, don't forget to embed your links into your blog post.
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