I really liked this article and found it really useful in understanding a lot of what I have been doing. I knew about some of these techniques before but never really took a broken down look at them until this article. I can definitely relate to the statistic where teachers don't allow enough wait time for answers of question. Also I find myself asking more lower order questions.
I think that if I had more time to ask more higher order question and apply more wait time. I would in many senses be a better educator. Allowing the students to think and in many ways add their own personal touch to a question would better serve them in the long run. Also as the article talks about it would also decrease the "I don't knows" and would help create more question for the students.
As the article suggests in many ways teachers are keeping with the lower order questions. Now I know I haven't done a study on this but, it would be my guess that in schools today, that's about all students know how to effectively answers and study for. I wonder if educators would ask more higher order question if that would in turn increase what students really know?
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Wait time is an important tool within questioning. I first heard about wait time in undergrad. The idea came up again in several professional development opportunities. It was then that I gave it serious thought and experimentation.
ReplyDeleteI didn't change my instruction and counted my wait time. I wasn't doing to bad, but I made a decision to try and get better. I talked about wait time with students to get their thinking. They think the longer the better, but look at their expressions.