Professional Inquiry Project
Creator: Carly Hoar
Creator: Carly Hoar
What should you expect?
Root Question
How can the questioning method be altered to avoid the jungle of students bounding to answer?
Description: The purpose of my project was to create a resource for educators to gain knowledge into the questioning method. I believe that questioning is the root of learning and that thinking is driven by questioning. By developing one’s questioning method, I think it will enrich the ability to teach effectively, manage the classroom, assess, and foster critical thinking skills within the students. Through effective questioning, it enables the teacher to grow and develop the ideas of students with control and direction. Teaching through questions can be a very powerful tool to probe the students to success.
Method: I started my project by reflecting on what I anticipated the ideal end product looking like. I foresaw a website with strategies and tools that a teacher could implement easily into their teaching without being too time consuming. I took a few weeks to solely do some research and find a direction that I wanted to go. Resources that I consulted ranged from online research to conversations with veteran teachers. With the information that I received, I created a questioning toolbox website. Some topics that my website includes are, strategies on active listening, strategies on asking a question, ideas on questioning stems, and resources for further learning.
Results: I decided to create a simple and easy resource for teachers to use. Educators are constantly surrounded by learning and new resources, and I did not want my end product to be a burden. My website that I created is filled with easy to implement ideas to help improve and refresh one’s questioning method. I stumbled upon an idea called active listening, and I felt that it fit very well into improving how students react to questioning. From there, I continued on and found strategies that could be easily implemented into the classroom to develop and improve questioning within the classroom.
How can the questioning method be altered to avoid the jungle of students bounding to answer?
Description: The purpose of my project was to create a resource for educators to gain knowledge into the questioning method. I believe that questioning is the root of learning and that thinking is driven by questioning. By developing one’s questioning method, I think it will enrich the ability to teach effectively, manage the classroom, assess, and foster critical thinking skills within the students. Through effective questioning, it enables the teacher to grow and develop the ideas of students with control and direction. Teaching through questions can be a very powerful tool to probe the students to success.
Method: I started my project by reflecting on what I anticipated the ideal end product looking like. I foresaw a website with strategies and tools that a teacher could implement easily into their teaching without being too time consuming. I took a few weeks to solely do some research and find a direction that I wanted to go. Resources that I consulted ranged from online research to conversations with veteran teachers. With the information that I received, I created a questioning toolbox website. Some topics that my website includes are, strategies on active listening, strategies on asking a question, ideas on questioning stems, and resources for further learning.
Results: I decided to create a simple and easy resource for teachers to use. Educators are constantly surrounded by learning and new resources, and I did not want my end product to be a burden. My website that I created is filled with easy to implement ideas to help improve and refresh one’s questioning method. I stumbled upon an idea called active listening, and I felt that it fit very well into improving how students react to questioning. From there, I continued on and found strategies that could be easily implemented into the classroom to develop and improve questioning within the classroom.
WHY ASK QUESTIONS?
Teachers ask questions for a variety of purposes, including:
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