Blog Post #6

Asking Questions to Improve Learning

The resource that I have found is Asking Questions to Improve Learning , the website states that as a teacher prepares for their classes they should compose questions that they will ask their students or questions that might be asked of the teacher. By doing this it will increase students' participation and encourages active learning. When asking questions in the classroom, students can showcase the materials learned, their thinking skills and what is need to prepare for exams.

I choose this resource because it had information that I would need to better myself in asking quality questions. The website Asking Questions to Improve Learning, broke down asking questions into different categories. These categories were: General Strategies for Asking Questions, Responding Effectively, Why Ask “Open Questions? Twelve Objectives, with Sample Questions, and Use Bloom’s Taxonomy. In each category, there are excellent examples in which a teacher can use in the classroom to ask questions to prompt learning.

The two categories in which I learned the most is Respond Effectively and Use Bloom’s Taxonomy. In my education thus far, I have not been taught how to respond to questions. Thanks to my own children, I have a little experience in responding to their questions, however not in a classroom setting. So for me, this was very valuable. Secondly in Bloom’s Taxonomy, there is an outline of the six cognitive process types and it placed them in an order in complexity.

Asking Better Questions in the Classroom

The resource I choose from the list that Dr. Strange gave in this assignment was a Youtube video by Joanne Chesley. In this video she explained that an open-ended question leaves the form of the answer up to the student to respond. Allowing the student to bring forth more information on the question asked. Secondly she defined that a closed-ended question is a response from a student that can be answered in one word, such as: yes, no, or a brief phrase. Ms. Chesley gave two great examples of both an open-ended question and a closed-ended question that could be used in the classroom.