Blog Post #6

Asking Questions

As a teacher we are suppose to know what kind of questions to ask our students. Asking questions to our students is a very helpful way of learning because it makes our students think. Just because we as teachers know something doesn't mean our students know everything we do. In the article "Three Ways to Ask Better Questions" It says asking questions encourages participation and gets the students involved with the class discussion. The three ways to ask better questions in this article is Prepare Questions, Play with Questions, and to Preserve Good Questions, and in the article it gives detail by which all of these mean.

 

 In the article "Asking Questions to Improve Learning" it list strategies that can improve your questions for your students. Such as planning on the questions to ask before class and how you as a teacher are going to ask them to the class.  Sometimes following a planned question with a yes or no question can help the class get more involved in because whether or not the students knows the question he/she may want to answer because there is a 50 percent chance of getting it right.