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Questioning Techniques for Use in the Elementary School Classroom

This video shows a student teacher demonstrating questioning techniques during a 5th grade history lesson.  The video can be used to illustrate both more and less effective methods.

Recommended By Carol Gladstone, Doctor, Mercy College

Courses Taught Assessment and Measurement, Methods and Materials for Adolescence Education
Length 1:21
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Original Source Youtube
Media source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEYjub_8qfI
Suggested forMethods and Materials of Middle Childhood and Adolescence Education
Posted in Education — Teaching and Learning, Childhood Education, Classroom Management, Social Studies Education
Learning Objectives
  • Introduction: Ever since the time of Socrates teachers have understood that questioning is not only a method of testing but an instructional method itself; answering questions helps students understand and retain information and develop the ability to see connections, draw inferences and think critically. It also keeps student’s attention since they never know when they may be called upon. It’s important, however, that teachers hone their questioning techniques to obtain the best results. Some suggested techniques for elementary school students include: asking questions that include instructional content or hints within the question, e.g., “The middle states were good for farming because the soil was very rich. What event in the last ice age had caused this?” Even if students had never heard the answer before they should be able to deduce it from the question; accepting a reasonable response -- correcting or adjusting it if necessary -- not trying to make students guess the exact words or response the teacher is looking for; encouraging students to listen to one another and promoting student inter-interaction (for example, having the students ask each other the questions) to avoid teacher domination. This video of a student teacher in a 5th grade classroom illustrates some of these techniques along with less effective techniques that student teachers can critique. ...
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  • Discuss the importance of questioning as an instructional method and review effective questioning techniques. ...
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Transcript
Johnathan Miller: We talked about how the colonies had what types of material, what types of resource? That they build houses out of. Taylor.

Taylor: Trees?

JM: Trees, so timber, that's correct. And the middle colonies, what type of resources did they produce? Because the glaciers came and pushed all that dirt down there so they were what?

Student: Farmers?

JM: They were farmers, and what did they grow there, Karen?

Karen: Wheat.

JM: That's right, so it was called the, what type of basket? Robert?

Robert: Wheat basket.

JM: Wheat basket, or...the bread basket, because wheat is used to make bread. Okay, and then they had to move stuff around, and they were fortunate that they had all these big wide things to move stuff around on, long and winding...

S: Lakes?

JM: Not lakes, but similar material in 'em...

S: Rivers?

JM: Rivers, that's right. So the middle colonies were good for growing wheat, because all the dirt came down from the glaciers. You have all this stuff in your notes, and these are what you're gonna include on your map. Different things that are important to all these states.
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