Clarity
Individual
Help
Probing
and
Delving
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Numbered
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Wait
Time
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One way to ensure more
equitable response
opportunities is to do this.
What is to stop calling on students
who raise their hands?
They may feel ignored.
Who are students who have few
opportunities to respond?
Step two.
What is the teacher announces the
question or problem?
The last role to be assigned.
What is the reporter?
This avoids long, drawn out whole
group reporting which can become
boring and tedious.
What is the “be additive, not
repetitive” rule?
Typically, less than one second.
What is the amount of time most
teachers give for student responses?
Inventor of the concept of "wait-time"
as an instructional variable.
Who is Mary Bud Rowe?
It’s characterized by a 3 or more
second period of uninterrupted silence
that teachers deliberately take to
consider what just took place.
What is teacher pause-time?
It’s the optimum period of silence that
should follow teacher questions and
students' completed responses.
What is 3-5 seconds?
The number of volunteered,
appropriate answers by larger
numbers of students greatly increases.
What happens when teachers use 3
seconds of wait time?
Providing clarity means the learning is
this to ALL students.
What is meaningful?
This happens when the teacher tries to
determine if students are confused.
What is checking for understanding?
These tools help teachers too explain.
What are explanatory devices?
These provide students with an
overview of what activities they
will be doing.
What are agendas or
itineraries?
Pulling everything together
at the end of the lesson.
What is summarizing?
Establishing a safe environment that
encourages risk taking and
questioning are critical to this.
What is providing equitable
individual help?
Some students may be too
embarrassed or confused to pursue the
teacher’s attention and may miss out
on this.
What are opportunities for gaining
understanding through questioning?
Teachers tend to most often direct
their attention to these students.
Who are students perceived to be
engaged in their work?
By getting to know their students
on a personal basis,
teachers can create these.
What are classrooms that encourage
students to ask questions?
Teachers can make it safe for everyone
to ask questions by validating this.
What is the worthiness of all
questions?
Research suggests that these students
are more apt to be the recipients of
teacher probes.
Who are high achieving students?
Seeing their teachers make a special
effort to help them can enhance this.
What is students’ self-confidence?
When they do not respond, teachers
are more likely to move on to another
student than to offer assistance to
answer.
Who are lower achieving students?
Probing is especially important for
these students who may have begun to
doubt their own capabilities and
withhold effort.
Who are lower achieving students?
“Tell me more about…”
and
“What criteria did you use to…?”
What are examples of probing
questions?