Tiaria Norman

Dr. McClary
EDUC 423
4/23/17
Effecting Questioning

While being in Mr. Jamisons class I tried to pay close attention to the questions that he

used. I tried to observe when and what type of questions that he would ask. Since I am an

Elementary Education major fourth grade could be the grade that I could teach. The important

aspects of questioning are being sure that you are asking the right question and at the right time.

Also, selecting the right questions for the type of response you would like to receive from your

students is important too. The three types of responses are accepting, extending, and probing.

When it comes to questioning, there are many types of questions that you can ask. First is

open and closed ended questions, an open-ended question has many possible answers and a

closed ended question has limited answers. One day I was observing Mr. Jamisons class and

they were doing a lesson on measurement. First the start off by watching a video of measurement

introducing units, and measuring tools. After the watched the video, he began to ask the students

questions about the video. He would ask questions like Tell me what you learned from the

video this would be an open-ended question. By him asking this question he want to get a

classroom discussion started. The questions allow the student to say what they want to say but it

had to be about the video. I feel that this was a good question now. After he asked the students

that question he then begin to ask the student specific questions about the video. These questions

would be more closed-ended because they would only have one correct answer.
 As far as the types of responses, there are three types of response when it comes to

responding to students. There are accepting, extending, and probing. Accepting response is when

you are answering closed ended questions. An extending response is when you select one topic

and the response keeping building and building off one another. The ask used with open-ended

questions. Probing response are used when the students are going into deep thought about a

response. These are responses to open-ended questions, for example when Mr. Jamison asked the

students what they learned from the video, he want his students to go into detail and tell him

things that they learned.

For this lesson on measurement he used open-ended and closed-ended questions. After

the video, they did a whole class activity. They all circled around Mr. Jamison and sat round him

on the floor. Mr. Jamison had a ruler and different items on the floor to measure. One of the

items was a pen, so he would ask the student where should he start measuring the pen, and the

students responded at either end of the pen. Then when he continued to measure the pen he

would ask if he was doing it correctly and they would answer yes or no. They were both

examples of closed ended questions because they have a limited number of answers.

I feel that overall Mr. Jamison does a good job with selecting the right questions to ask

throughout his lesson. It is important that when you ask a question in the classroom you know

what kind of response that you are looking. You should always ask meaningful questions in the

classroom, and have a reason behind why you are asking the questions. I feel that Mr. Jamison

does a good job with this in his classroom.