Questions

When  I was growing up in school, questioning was a word that would make me cringe. I absolutely hated having to answer questions in any way. Most of the questions I was asked weren't exactly higher order thinking. I mostly remember memorizing everything and giving definite, straight-forward answers. I never cared to change my ways because I was being awarded with good grades for this behavior. As I moved on to college and nursing school I noticed that questioning is much different and I had to actually use my brain to think about what I was being asked. It wasn't just memorization anymore. In high school it was cool and all but then I began to resent those times and my lack of effort because I was never taught how to answer higher order thinking questions.

Some of the strategies used in chapter 5 (SQ3R, reciprocal) are helpful to know and use for when I become a teacher. I have learned that I should have been pushed to think about questions and answer them fully and should do the same for my students. What good is it doing to ask closed questions? And even if a question is open-ended, it should make students think, question, infer, discuss, and on and on. I think I need to go to a siminar for this because I was taught poorly and never did anything about it. Students also can learn so much from one another and should be able to ask one another questions and discuss together in order to learn how to ask questions themselves.

I really liked the video Tuesday. I am SO not a math person. I was one of those students that he was talking about who was scared to talk about math or answer anything in front of the class in fear of not knowing the correct answer. I like how he brought a literal situation to the classroom to get everone involved rather than reading a word problem out of a book and having to look up the answer. I can only hope that I will learn to be that inventive so my students will not feel the way I did. We can do away with those questions at the end of a chapter in a geometry book for all I care. If you are like me, you looked up the answer in the back and never really learned how to do it or what the point was.