Blog post 4

  After reading these articles I have learned a lot about how to ask questions and what questions to ask. The first article I read was” Three Ways To Ask Better Questions in the Classroom”. In his blog post "The Right Way to Ask Questions in the Classroom," Ben Johnson asks why teachers ask questions in the first place. As he says, "What does a teacher asking questions of a class expect the class to learn from the questioning method?" First, we must prepare questions while we are creating or writing lecture it is crucial that we do this so that we are prepared to ask important questions that relate directly to the content of out speech. Next, we are to be sure to engage our students in the question asking process, by maybe leaving the question unanswered.  Lastly, this article states that we must save good questions. Good questions help students to see the importance of questions and how they make us think. The best questions of all are those we cannot answer.

  We must remember that as teachers we do not know everything, as stated in The Right Way to Ask Questions in the Classroom this article taught me that questions to check understanding benefit the teacher more than the student, for instance some students might say that they understand when they really do not. Instead of asking if everyone understands, ask specific questions about the content taught but avoid questions that require a simple fact as answerWe will always have those students that keep quiet and count on the smarter students to answer the questions for them. Including every student in the question process will help everyone in the end.

  Asking Questions to Improve Learning was most helpful in my opinion. This article tells us to keep our course goals in mind as we ask questions. We must keep them in mind if we want our students to major core ideas and critical thinking skills. We must avoid questions that answer themselves this does not allow students to think of their own answers.