Got Questions? (required blog)

This week I tried my hand at two questioning techniques... "did it work", you say? Well, it worked as well as it could have considering the situation. I have one student who is extremely bright. I still can't figure out why he is even in summer school! 

I combined the "muddiest water" technique and the "Blooms higher level questioning" technique.  The student for one is a 'talker' and if you ask him a question he goes off into elaborate stories about his life, mostly about his family. The student also already knows a lot about the subject, meaning he is above grade level, so he already knew the answer to the questions he asked. I do not think that this is a good preview to how the school year is going to go. It is setting up this false sense of security that I can teach or even that every child will understand. The questioning techniques, in my opinion, do not work for a class of one.