From: Social Significance of Patterns of Questioning in Classroom Discourse
Three things you learned:
1-Despite all of the technology available in the classrooms, language is still the primary source for communicating the curriculum and teaching in the classroom.
2-Language communicates control, especially in crowded situations, and is there to establish and maintain social relationships.
3-Teachers also bring personal perspectives and anxieties into the classroom with their language.
Two things you found interesting:
1-Language reflects personal identity, cultures, etc.
2- IRE - Teacher initiation, student response, teacher evaluation - is the most common pattern of classroom discourse in classroom of all grade levels.
One question you have:
1-Not sure of a question...
From: Learning to Ask Essential Questions
Essential questions can be valuable for teaching because they provide an overall thought for the lesson that can keep the students on task, questioning throughout the lesson, and guiding the lesson. These questions do not have an immediately known answer, and may sometimes be learned over the course of a few days/lessons. These can also help teachers base curriculum and stay central around the same thing as they are teaching and building the concept.
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