Friday, November 14, 2008

I thought the end of the book had a really good fact in it. In the study the teachers said they only thought they were asking about 25-40 questions per hour in their class but in the end it turned out to be they were asking over 100 questions in the hour. It made me think about questions and cues. We are suppose to use this tool as a way to spark the minds of the students to think and reason, but how many questions should we ask? These seasoned teachers are asking over 100 questions per hour, is that too little or too much? Could it be possible for a teacher to ask only a handful of questions to their class in one day and have just as much growth in the students learning? I think over 100 questions an hour shows that teachers are asking low end questions. They are not questions that are making the students think too much, they are more like yes/no or true/false questions. I think in the lesson outlines there should be a section where the teacher must write a few high end questions that are going to make the students think. The questions we ask our students need to be more of posing a problem for them to solve than just a yes/no question. 

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