Douglas Sharpe's EDM310 blog post #4

It is very important for all of us to ask questions. The process of learning never stops, no matter how old we are or what position we hold in our career a dumb question is one that goes unasked. I believe in order to be an effective teacher we should be well rounded and have a wide variety of life experiences along with an educated brain in a lot of different areas. In this unit of EDM310 I have learned that you must be specific when asking a question. Another key role in asking questions to your class is planning your questions out by knowing what you will ask the class and in what order you will ask them is very important. In doing so, you wont to stay away from the leading questions and to never ask a yes or no question back to back but to ask a simple why or why not after a yes or no question. This will cause the class to discuss their yes or no answer and to always allow 5-10 seconds before you ask for a response from the class. This allows the student the amount of time that they need to ponder the question. You also need to play with questions in some type of way and that is honestly up to the teacher how he/she wants to do so but the main thing is to keep the discussion active. The last thing that I have learned in this unit that seems most important to me is to preserve the good questions until the end. This allows the students time to join in discussion and once you reach the end when it's time to ask "the good questions" each student will be proactive in the conversation where they will end up learning what your trying to teach in the lesson.