{"id":2506,"date":"2018-03-27T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:35:28","slug":"any-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/any-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Any questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago, I received a blog post from the Faculty Focus called <\/span>\u201c\u2018Everybody with me?\u2019 and Not-So-Useful Questions\u201d<\/span><\/a> which pique my interest, but I didn\u2019t have time to read it so I bookmarked it for later..  Then one day I was sitting in a graduate class when I heard the question, \u201cYou follow me?\u201d The next day I was walking down the hallway in my office building and happened to walk by a class when I heard a professor ask, \u201cDoes that make sense?\u201d  Both of these experiences caused me to go back and read the Faculty Focus blog post, and I started to think about the questions professors ask and what they mean or want when they ask questions. <\/span><\/p>\n

So I thought back to how I felt when I heard both of these questions.  When my professor asked the class the question, \u201cYou follow me?,\u201d I immediately answered \u201cno\u201d in my head because I was still processing what he was saying.   So technically I wasn\u2019t with him, but I didn\u2019t dare tell him that because I didn\u2019t want to him to just repeat the explanation he had just given. It was in that moment that I realized that I needed to check my own teaching.  Was I asking questions that were not moving my students forward? Was I really allowing them to respond? Was I asking questions that did not have a purpose other than to fill a void in the lesson?<\/span><\/p>\n

As I reread the Faculty Focus blog post, <\/span>Classroom Assessment Techniques<\/span><\/a> (CATs) were mentioned as ways to involved students more.  CATs are strategies in which faculty can informally or formally assess students\u2019 understanding.  Some examples of CATs are one-minute essays and student-generated exam questions. I started to remember other techniques, like freewriting or popcorn questions.  All of these strategies help faculty teach in a way that promotes purposeful questions as well as opportunities to gauge if and how the students are understanding the course material.  Is everyone with me?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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