Kauchak Post

Hello All!

According to Kauchak (1998) what are three functions of teacher questions? What role does technology play with accomplishing these functions?

I when I started to read this article I was thinking "well no duh! You should always present questions to students." I am sure a lot of people thought that, but then I read more about how increased teacher questioning and how it POSSIBLY could have a correlation to increased student learning and it just made sense. I never knew how much you need to question your students. I think the article said that on average a teacher presented 2 questions a minute or something like that. I started to think about how many question I present during some of my lessons. Not enough!

The different functions for questions that Kauchak presents are assessing, increasing motivation, and guiding new learning were somewhat familar to me but I really never thought about how to structure those questions within my lessons properly. The guiding questions are my specialty I am really awful at using to many of those!

The process in which the students think about questions never really occured to me so the section on 'the student's perspective' helped me form ideas about how to help students that have misconceptions, by understanding how they got to their answer better.

All the definitions that Kauchak went through helped also so that I can have a checklist of sorts to make sure that I use all the strategies I can to effectively teach.

After I read this article I started to work on my powerpoint assignment and realized that by using powerpoint I could not only present the ideas to the students I could help myself remember how to question. I am a note person and if I were to use powerpoint in a lesson I can organize questions that I would like to go over with the students according to the powerpoint.

I believe the combination of the two, my notes on questions and the powerpoint will make my lessons, where I use powerpoint more effective for student learning.

I may add or change things in this post the more I think on it.