Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Topic: Teachers' Questions

Question: What kinds of questions do teachers usually ask?

10-second review: Evidence from previous research suggests that teachers in all academic disciplines are given to using low-level factual questions.

Source: RA Lucking. Research in the Teaching of English (Winter 1976), 269. A publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Comment. Other types of questions: questions to which both students and teachers do NOT know the answers and work together to find the answers. Open-ended questions that can have a variety of possible answers. REAL questions to which students want to find the answers. Questions that begin lessons and units. RayS.

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