Lesson 4: How can I use the feedback from students to deepen their thinking?
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Objective
Participants will reflect on their students' responses to determine how to improve on their future questions.
Introduction
In this final lesson of the course, participants will reflect on how their implementation of their lesson plan can provide them information about how to deliver questions more effectively in the future. Please make sure you have implemented your lesson that you wrote in Lesson 3 before starting this lesson. Reflecting on how your questioning strategies were received by students and whether those responses indicated successful deep thinking is imperative for growing in your questioning practice.
A part of the investigation of this lesson will focus on how to effectively respond to students whether their answer is right, wrong, or if no one answers. In the lesson you implemented after Lesson 3, it's likely that there were a variety of responses by students to your questions. Maybe some were eager to respond or maybe some didn't partake. Maybe students' answers were correct or maybe they required some redirection. In this lesson, participants will use their students' responses to questions to determine how to reach more students or elicit deeper thinking in the future.
K-W-L Pre-Assessment
- Before you begin reading the content in Lesson 4, please make additions to the K-W-L chart. You should add a few comments describing what you think are some strategies for effectively reflecting on questioning in the "K" section of the chart. You can then brainstorm a few questions you have about effective reflecting and type them in the "W" section of the chart, indicating what you want to know.
Warm Up
As a warm up, please describe how the implementation of your lesson went, paying particular attention to how students responded to your questioning strategies. Did their answers suggest higher order thinking? Were students responsive to your prompts? Focus on both strengths and weaknesses of the lesson.
Please record your thoughts in the page below. In addition, please read the thoughts shared by your classmates.
Investigation
As you access the links below, please take notes in your Journalate journal. The ideas and prompts to consider during your investigation should guide your note-taking.
1. Read the following article about questioning strategies. Pay particular attention to the section titled "Handling Student Responses". Consider your lesson that you delivered in the previous module, and whether you handled student responses well. Do their responses indicate deep thinking? Reflect on how you could have delivered or written a question differently to have better student responses.
2. Watch the following video that defines quality questioning. Pay particular attention to how important it is for questions to be written for a specific purpose. Reflect on the lesson that you delivered in the previous module and determine if your questions accomplished their purpose.
Reflection
- After reviewing the previous links and reading the reflections of your peers, describe one strategy you would change to elicit better student responses in the "L" section of the K-W-L chart. If any new questions emerged after completing the "Investigation" portion of Lesson 4, you can add them to the "W" section. In addition, if you can answer any questions from the "W" section, please record these answers in the "L" section. It is my hope that by the end of this course, there would be no remaining questions in the "W" section!
- In your Journalate, please make one final entry about how your questioning strategies have changed as a result of this course. Do you see this changes present in your daily teaching? How has your understanding of an effective question changed? How has your planning changed?
Congratulations
Congratulations on successfully completing this course!
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