Monday, April 5, 2010
Questioning Part 1
Well I started to try new things in class.....QUESTIONING. I had the students write down questions. They were to come up with five questions total. Three of the questions were fill in the answer and two were true and false. They were to come up with a question per worksheet they had. Each worksheet went with one section of the chapter. I was hoping to use this as a little bit of a review prior to their test (I had other review plans as well). The students got 2 minutes to ask each other the 10 total questions. I had them alternate questions. This was to keep them in the same sections with there questions. Students were given 10 minutes to develop their questions and another 10 to ask. I stressed the importance of engaging with people they usually don't speak with. Some students always go to there friends and others are shy and won't go to anyone. While the students did the task they were engaged. I walked around and listened to questions and answers. I thought the time limit would keep them on track. The class really seemed to enjoy a new activity in which they could walk around talk. I followed the activity using the Collins Writing- Type One technique. Students write their thoughs while skipping lines. No points are taken off for grammer, punctuation, capitalization etc. If students run out of things to write about they ask questions pertaining to the material. The results from this excersise could have been better. I believe starting this with a chapter review was too much. I will do it with a section next time.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I like that you have already thought about what you would do next time- sometimes we all bit off too much- sounds like a great idea to break it into section chunks- can you adapt some of your other questioning activities into smaller chunks? Also I think you were going to try a couple of questioning activities and then compare them- so I hope that this gives you an interesting comparison about questioning in your classroom to improve instruction.
ReplyDeleteI like how you stressed students to engage with someone other then who they are comfortable with. this is an issue in my classroom because i see students mingling instead of working. I like the strategies you are using. I am interested to see what you find.
ReplyDeleteI also really like the fact that you encouraged students to become engaged with someone with whom they would not usually go to. It's nice to encourage this interaction and then also to see that they can learn something new about someone they would not necessarily talk to on a regular basis!
ReplyDelete