Sunday, April 15, 2012

EDN 205 (27/3/2012)

Reflection paper eight
Merits and Demerits of Questioning Strategy.

Merits:
Request that students think and do rather than just remember

Handling incorrect responses/no responses

Prompting

-be positive

-rephrase the question

-use neutral prompting

Support active, student-centered learning

Facilitate inquiry-based learning

Help students to construct knowledge

Help students to develop problem-solving skills

Improve long-term retention of knowledge

Promote student learning

Identify for the teacher the cognitive understanding of the student

Build creative and inventive outcomes through a capacity for question finding

Foster student metacognition

Demerits:
Time consuming.

Minimum coverage of the context.

Challenging for different kinds of learners.

Calling students randomly maximizes incorrect response that discourages the std.

Role of the Teacher: (Socratic questioning)

1. During Socratic questioning, the teacher is a model of critical thinking who respects students' viewpoints, probes their understanding, and shows genuine interest in their thinking.

2. The teacher poses questions that are more meaningful than those a novice of a given topic might develop on his or her own.

3. The teachers create and sustain an intellectually stimulating classroom environment and acknowledge the value of the student in that environment. In an intellectually open, safe, and demanding learning environment, students will be challenged, yet comfortable in answering questions honestly and fully in front of their peers.

Role of students

Participate when called upon.

Answer questions as carefully and clearly as possible.

Address the whole class so that everyone can hear their answers.

Be as succinct as possible in the interest of maximizing classroom time and effectiveness

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