This activity was such a good one, the reading gave me a lot of insight on how I can use resonance and cognitive dissonance to stimulate thinking. this entire activity helped me to enhance the way I question students. planning and managing questions was very interesting. I used all I learned in this activity in a few lessons so far and the results were good, I got my students to start thinking, comparing and contrasting ideas, especially when I used pictures juxtaposed. I encourage all my colleagues to contrast in lessons especially when they need students to have a good discussion.
Thursday 20 March 2014
Wednesday 12 March 2014
Module 1 Activity 10
Promoting discussion
In this activity I learned a lot of ideas for my classroom discussion. I was aware of the think ink pair share discussion strategy before but the agree/disagree method was new to me. I have not yet tried it in my classroom but I am willing to do so very soon. I completed the activity by using the first strategy with some very interesting questions for my students to discuss. the discussion each pair had was quite fruitful so I was very content with the outcome. I will try the agree/disagree in one of my classes in the following week and see if it words well as the think pair share.
In this activity I learned a lot of ideas for my classroom discussion. I was aware of the think ink pair share discussion strategy before but the agree/disagree method was new to me. I have not yet tried it in my classroom but I am willing to do so very soon. I completed the activity by using the first strategy with some very interesting questions for my students to discuss. the discussion each pair had was quite fruitful so I was very content with the outcome. I will try the agree/disagree in one of my classes in the following week and see if it words well as the think pair share.
Monday 10 March 2014
Module 1 Activity 9
what questions we ask and why?
This activity really spoke to me, I use questioning as a strategy in my classroom very often so my ideas was polished after doing the readings. my high points of the reading was basically about why we ask questions, i usually ask questions so students can think more and also to start a discussion, i learnt that we ask questions for a few more reasons than that, i accept the ideas and i can now ask more questions. I am accustom to use both close and open ended questions which i was reminded of in the readings and i would encourage all teachers to use both open and closed questions so that students recall would not be the only thing tested. questions need to be asked at all levels of blooms taxonomy. I can basically summarize my thoughts by saying that questioning is a strategy that if used correctly, will enhance learning just like any other strategy used in the classroom.
This activity really spoke to me, I use questioning as a strategy in my classroom very often so my ideas was polished after doing the readings. my high points of the reading was basically about why we ask questions, i usually ask questions so students can think more and also to start a discussion, i learnt that we ask questions for a few more reasons than that, i accept the ideas and i can now ask more questions. I am accustom to use both close and open ended questions which i was reminded of in the readings and i would encourage all teachers to use both open and closed questions so that students recall would not be the only thing tested. questions need to be asked at all levels of blooms taxonomy. I can basically summarize my thoughts by saying that questioning is a strategy that if used correctly, will enhance learning just like any other strategy used in the classroom.
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