Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 discussed the various forms of questioning, how tocreate good questions, and how to implement them. The chapter emphasized the importance of students thinking about their thinking. This is a rather difficult thing for young middle school students to do. The process of teaching them to answer questions of higher order thinking takes quite a bit of time. It needs to be done but should be well thought out and practiced. Young middle school students may need some unbiased guidance to answer the higher order questions but with time will begin to answer them without as much guidance. There was a lot of information in the chapter about the wait time and how to question an entire group. I think the overall trend is to use fewer convergent questions and more divergent and higher order questioning in the classroom.
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I like how you mentioned that some students may need assistance in answering some higher order thinking questions. Higher order thinking question can benefit students greatly. The wait time for students also is critical. Students need time to think before answering questions.
ReplyDeleteI like how you brought up the topic of guidance. Middle school children can be shy or sometimes need that little push in order to get an answer out. A good way to use this "guidance" is through a graphic organizer. Just like our assignment #3, we can use any of these organizers in order to guide these middle school students.
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