Monday, May 11, 2009

THE RIGHT WAY TO ASK CLASSROOM QUESTIONS?

In a recent article at Edutopia, education consultant Ben Johnson wondered: "What does a teacher asking questions to a class expect the class to learn from the questioning process?" In less than week, Johnson's frank discussion has drawn more than 50 comments, mostly from classroom teachers. A great think piece exploring Johnson's contention that teachers ask far too many "useless" questions of students. Click here to read the article and comments: http://www.edutopia.org/asking-students-good-questions


An excerpt from http://www.middleweb.com/

1 comment:

Spicher113 said...

Lots of presumptions in this article folks. Much as we are told not to judge a kid by what he/she says, wears or the way that they wear their hair. The author of the piece makes assumptions about all classrooms and about all students that he observed ONCE.