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When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Step off the soapbox, tone down that direct teaching, and become wondrous and inquisitive right along side your students. Take a break from what you are expert at and delve into unknown territory with new content, activities, or a concept. Here are ways to get started:
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP terms, this means ceasing to be THE content deliverer and become a co-content explorer and generator with your students.
  • Begin and end a lesson, unit, or project with an essential question or two. These are overarching questions that do not have a definitive answer
  • Take every opportunity to express to your students that you have no idea about an answer, even if you have to fake it a little.
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  • Dwindle down those teacher sentences that start with "This means" and replace them with, "I wonder," "What if," and "How might?"
  • Give students plenty of think time. When you stop rushing, students may seem a bit shocked and may even believe it to be some sort of trick or hidden tactic.
  • Be mindful of your tone. Try replacing a flat, authoritative, expert-sounding one with -- and this might sound corny -- a singsong intonation, the one we use when we are whimsically curious.
  • Make your classroom a place of wonderment.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Students are all too often on a quest for the Correct Answers, which has little to do with critical-thinking development. Our schools are about competition, merits, awards, and how to earn the Golden Ticket -- giving the right answers. And this focus often starts as early as kindergarten.  … Studies show that getting answers wrong actually helps students learn.
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