Aim 3
Planning for Learning
Target / focus
To be able to promote engagement and ensure all students meet their potential through questions.
Rationale
Questioning is the best way to describe new ideas, engage students,motivate them to answer, and best method to improve students critical thinking. Also, questioning is an important part of teaching and learning. I can use questioning when I face difficulties to explain my lesson and to stimulate students thinking to answer. In my next teaching practice, I will use “Bloom's Taxonomy questioning”, such as What, Who, Why and Wher. This kind of questions can help me to motivate students to predict, answer and make the lesson more easier, especially with low ability, because they need more help to understand. My goal is improving students understanding and add new knowledge and new skills. Furthermore, Schneider (2002) comments that “It’s our job as educators to equip young students with the skills and strategies to think critically in order to solve problems and succeed”. In addition, questions can help the students comes to the conclusions, especially if I start my activity with tricky questions. According to Piaget (20013), “The teacher must begin asking. Instead of answering questions that only align with their curriculum, the facilitator in this case must make it so that the student comes to the conclusions on their own instead of being told”.
Strategies
There are several strategies that I can use it in the classroom. These strategies are real challenging to make sure that the students are concentrated, understanding and focus when I am explaining. The important strategies I will use it in my next teaching practice are, frequency, equitable distribution, and challenging.
Frequency
According to Linhardt & Steele (2005), “Questioning Frequency refers to the number of questions that teacher ask over a period”. I will use Bloom's Taxonomy questioning, such as, What, When, Who, How and where. In my lesson plan, I will use different kind of questions because, more questions I will use, “The most accurate understanding of the knowledge of students”. And it will encourage students to involved in the lesson.
Equitable distribution
Kerman (1979) argues that “Describes a questioning strategy in which all students in the class are called on as equally as possible”. For example, I will use lollipop sticks, and I will write student’s name on it, and then I will pick a student’s name to call randomness, so the students know they will going to participate any time. This way will help me to engage them and let them more concentrate in class.
Challenges :
I will distribute question to each group after the lesson then; I will give them the specific time to answer. This way will help them to think deeply to get the answer. According to Meggitt (2006), ” children enjoy the challenge of experimenting with new materials, and enjoy learning mathematical and scientific concepts”.