It's one of the staples of teaching - asking questions to check student understanding. The traditional imagery is of a teacher at the front of a room asking questions and students with their hands up to show they can answer.
Do you ask those with their hands up? What if they are the same one that has answered the last 4 questions? Do you invite others to answer? Do you deliberately choose those without their hands up? How agentic is this model?
Alfie Kohn has some strong feelings about all of this and recently wrote a great post called "Your hand's not raised? Too bad. I'm calling on you anyway"
Do you ask those with their hands up? What if they are the same one that has answered the last 4 questions? Do you invite others to answer? Do you deliberately choose those without their hands up? How agentic is this model?
Alfie Kohn has some strong feelings about all of this and recently wrote a great post called "Your hand's not raised? Too bad. I'm calling on you anyway"
Do you feel strongly about this? Have you recently made changes to how you operate with questioning students for understanding? As always, feel free to leave a comment below to add to the discussion.
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