Try to do the following:
Things to avoid:
Activity 1.8: Reflecting on teachingAfter you have used different questions in three or four lessons, reflect on your experience with one or two of your colleagues – the ‘good habits’ and ‘things to avoid’. Did you manage to establish some good habits? Did you manage to avoid the pitfalls? Make notes in your Teacher Notebook. Effective questioning can be combined with all the classroom approaches that will follow. Try to establish the habit of planning your questions – particularly open-ended ones – and keep practising the different ways of responding to learners. |