Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Questions Teachers and Students Ask

Listen to the questions being asked in the classroom. Who asks the questions? Do the students? Does the teacher? What kinds of questions are asked by the teacher? What kinds of questions do the students ask? Listen to the questions and record them in a notebook. Do they make students think? Are they though provoking? Are they recall questions? Procedural? Behavioral? Rhetorical? What do you notice?

Teaching Strategies

What teaching strategies have you observed the teacher using to help the students learn the content or skill? Describe these strategies?