I watched questioning styles and strategies. The speaker starts off the class by asking the students to describe a place children perceived the place as they read about it. The student's write down their answer and discuss it. He then calls on children and asks them to tell what they wrote. This is an effective way of asking questions because if you didn't call on someone directly you may not get any participation. He then asks the student to call on another student. By having a student call on andother student it gets the students more involved. With each question he asks he gets a little deeper and it requires a little more thinking. Most students will participate in the thinking process, because they do not want to be caught blindsided if called on with no answer.
I also watched, Asking better questions in the classroom by Joanne Chesley. She informs us that there are two types of questions. There is the open-ended question and the closed-ended question. We as teachers, in order to get our students to think, need to ask open-ended questions. Open-ended questions require thinking and not just a one word answer, yes or no, for example, which is required to answer a closed-ended question.
The summaries were okay, but you might want to go back and reflect what you learned.
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This is rather brief and the writing is confused and/or confusing. I think you can do much better than this.
I was a little confused by your sentence structure. I think you should go back and read the two sentences that Dr. Strange talked about and see if you can get a little more clarity out of them. I thought the summary was ok, may have been a little vague. But, I think if you would say what you learned from the video then it would increase the meaning of the post.
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