Questions are an important part in learning and being an effective teacher. Asking students questions is the main way students stay engaged in any activity or lecture in the classroom. As teachers, we need to ask questions based on how we think they will best benefit our students and understand the material being asked. After reading the articles and watching a couple of videos, there were three main tips for asking questions.These tips are: Randomly chose students to answers; Prepare and revise the questions that are asked; Ask open ended questions;
The first video watched was Three Ways To Ask Better Questions in the Classroom . First step is to prepare questions while we are creating or writing lecture, Next, engage students in the question asking process, Lastly, preserve good questions. Good questions help students to see the importance of questions and how they make us think.
Asking open ended, or divergent, questions is a great way to open the student's minds. A video by Thoughtful Classroom demonstrated that asking open ended questions help the children in four areas: mastery, understanding, self expression, and interpersonal thinking. The video showed ways to ask divergent questions through multiple techniques. Randomly calling on students is an important part of asking questions because it gives every student a chance to respond to the teacher and interaction is an essential part to the learning experience.
Lastly, to look at "How do we ask the questions?" In the last video we watched, Questioning Styles and Strategies, teachers asked in a self-expressive way to get the students attention or use an extended questioning method to further students thinking. There are many ways that teachers ask questions to students. If teachers take the time to value the questions and really think about how they ask them, then the students will benefit greater than listening and not comprehending questions being asked.
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