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Learning Probes allow teachers to gauge the effectiveness of their instruction. The term learning probe refers to a variety of ways of asking for brief student responses to lesson content. Levels of student understanding are measured by probes. Learning probes also allow students to practice their new knowledge and see if they have it right. Some examples of learning probes are questions to the class, pop quizzes, and brief written or physical demonstrations of understanding.
Links to information on Learning Probes:
The
Questioning Strategies
website gives tips on how to question your class, how to prepare questions,
and what questions to ask. The site also gives tips on student questions:
how to solicit them, wait time, etc.
This
is a wonderful website that covers many strategies to be used in a Teacher's
Toolbox. Part one of the site focuses mainly on questioning and offers
many strategies to use in your classroom. Part two overviews strategies
like: problem solving, test taking, research projects, and writing strategies.
America
Reads: Strategies for Successful Readers and Writers is a site that
offers tips on strategies to use with emergent readers before, during,
and after reading. The asking questions section covers the three areas
of reading and gives helpful tips on how to help children get the most
out of their reading.
Questioning
is a strategy that can evoke higher-order
thinking from students. The sections on questioning give examples of ways
to ask questions to involve higher-order thinking. It also gives a long
list of questions that fit into every level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
"Have
you asked a good question today?" is what this site wants to know.
It focuses on four different type of questions: memory, convergent thinking,
divergent thinking, and evaluative. Each section gives an overview of each
type of question. The main focus of this website is to enhance comprehension
through questioning.
Chapter
7 of Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice covers all
the components of teaching an effective lesson. Visit this site to take
a quiz over the chapter.
