Teachscape Learn Pohland

I feel like something that is really important to me and many teachers, is to develop good questions. That being said, I reviewed the course on asking effective questions. I feel like it can really help students better understand what they are learning if they are asked good questions. I think we have all struggled with developing good questions for discussion, within our classrooms. It is a skill that takes practice to develop, so I felt this class would help me better my questioning skills. When looking at the training the first thing that it addresses, is looking at the purpose for the question and the form of the question. It is important for us as teachers, to plan with the end in mind. As I went through the training, it showed many different types of questions to use. For example you have clarifying questions, these are used to help student better understand something they recently learned. Another example is cueing, this lets the students reflect on their answers and helps them discover the right answer on their own instead being handed the answer. Lastly another effective questioning technique is conceptual facilitation; this allows you to correct a student by asking questions instead of telling them they are wrong. I try to implement some of these techniques already but it is nice to see these in action by veteran teachers. I feeling good questioning techniques can help students discover answers on their own. Students discovering answers on their own in my opinion could help them develop confidence as a student and push them to strive for more. This training also helps you to better understand which types of questions to use in which situation. It also shows good ways to measure the effectiveness of your questions based on student responses. Lastly, the video stresses that teachers use highly cognitive questions. I agree with that, simple recall questions will not help you build students academic strength. I think this video was very helpful for me. I want to work on the discussions in my classroom; this is a very important part of any Social Studies classroom. I really like how the training had tips to implement these questioning techniques into your lesson planning and understanding what you want to get from the questions you ask. Brian Pohland