Questioning Strategies That Enhance Learning
Great questions are central to a great lesson. I sometimes begin a lesson by asking students a really interesting question to get them thinking. Teachers also use questioning to figure out when students understand what they are learning, especially during guided instruction when kids are trying out something new with the teacher there to help. This is an important part of the “I do, we do, you do” model. During the “we do” part, a student’s responses let the teacher…