Saturday, June 6, 2015

Blog Post #4

    In the article, The Right Way to Questions in the Classroom Johnson say the important question to ask is "What does a teacher asking questions of a class expert the class to learn from the questioning process?"

      Teachers ask questions to make sure that students are actually learning the material that is being taught. Some common questions include asking "Does everybody understand?" or calling on a student to answer questions about the material. Neither of these strategies are very effective approaches. Students some times don't speak up and tell teachers when they do not understand the material.
  
    In the article Asking Questions to Improve Learning  gives us some strategies that would be useful in the classroom. 1) When planning class keep in mind course goals, 2) Avoid asking "leading questions"      3) aim for direct, clear, specific questions, Plus many more strategies of ways to ask questions to improve learning.

     Three Ways to Ask Better Questions in the Classroom recommends us to use three actions that have the potential to improve our questioning. For step one she says we need to prepare our questions. She says she never prepared her questions and in the end it left the students confused. So if we prepare we can help the students understand instead of leaving them confused. Step two she tells us  play with the questions. you could get several different answers for the question and then go over the correct answer. Step three is to preserve good questions. You can keep notes of good questions and the answers and content based around the question. 



5 comments:

  1. Where is Blog Post #3 which was due Wednesday midnight 6/3? You wrote this:
    Peer editing is is a wonderful way for students to interact and to provide feedback to one another on their work. Through out these three different presentations I learned about peer editing. I learned what peer editing was and the steps on how to do peer editing. Peer editing is helping someone your own age to help improve, comment and give suggestions on their writing. Since this is done with people your age it is very important to remember not to give harmful remarks that will hurt them. Its oaky to ask questions about what the peer meant to say or what they were saying but just be polite.
    Peer editing is a wonderful resource as long a both peers are in it together and they stay positive about each others comments and opinion. These resources helped me to understand how to comment on my peers blog post and writing. They also were a big help and I will use all of them when I comment on my peers writing.
    Posted By Christian Dabney to Christian Dabney EDM310 Blog at 6/03/2015 03:35:00 PM but the post itself has apparently disappeared.
    My comments on this missing post:

    "Through out" Throughout is one word, not two.
    "...the steps on how to do peer editing." Use for doing rather than on how to do.

    "Peer editing is helping someone your own age to help improve, comment and give suggestions on their writing." Better: Peer editing is helping someone your own age to help improve their writing. Look carefully at the changes I made in this sentence. Do you understand why it is necessary t make them?
    "Its oaky…" This should be written in this way: It's OK since you are contracting It and is and you are nor really discussing the flavor or look of oak trees.


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  2. I don't know where it went but it is showing now. I posted it on 6/3 let me know if you can't see it.

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  3. I thought your post showed you read through the assignments clearly. A couple of helpful pointers I want to point out is to use more commas in your post. Especially when you are introducing an article or blog. I'd also recheck your post before you publish it. Other than those two things, great post!

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  4. " Teachers ask questions to make sure that students are actually learning the material that is being taught." I would argue that information retention is not the objective. Rather I would argue that the development of thinking, reasoning, arguing skills is the primary reason to ask questions. Yes, a check on understanding is useful to you if it improves your teaching. But the skills developed by the student are the most important outcomes.

    What about open-ended and closed ended questions?

    Interesting.

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  5. I understand the information you are presenting in this post, but there are numerous spelling and sentence structure errors within the text. I agree that checking understanding and developing higher order thinking are important in question asking.

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