That is so true. By giving the pupils good questions we make them construct their own knowledge, and interalize their new discoveries, rather than get the knowledge handed down from a teacher. Opal school in Portland OR is one of the schools that has worked a lot with how to make good questions for thir pupils, and make time and room for the children to do thir own reflections and wanderings. They call it: Playful Inquiries.
After experimenting with giving feedback on written texts by simply asking questions to make the pupils reflect on their texts, rather than pinpointing all the mistakes, I find that the students spend far more time studying their own texts and they seem more motivated to continue to write. They might come back weks later to discuss their texts again, something I rarely experienced earlier. Asking questions for reflections, also is less time consuming than all the corrections, wich is good news for most teachers :-).
That is so true. By giving the pupils good questions we make them construct their own knowledge, and interalize their new discoveries, rather than get the knowledge handed down from a teacher. Opal school in Portland OR is one of the schools that has worked a lot with how to make good questions for thir pupils, and make time and room for the children to do thir own reflections and wanderings. They call it: Playful Inquiries.
ReplyDeleteAfter experimenting with giving feedback on written texts by simply asking questions to make the pupils reflect on their texts, rather than pinpointing all the mistakes, I find that the students spend far more time studying their own texts and they seem more motivated to continue to write. They might come back weks later to discuss their texts again, something I rarely experienced earlier. Asking questions for reflections, also is less time consuming than all the corrections, wich is good news for most teachers :-).
Eli
Nice observations Eli... I totally agree.
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