A Teacher's Exercise ~ Five Questions
Same children. Same age. Same question. One small change in how it was asked, and correct answers jumped from 41% to 68%. The children had known all along. So what has the way you ask been hiding from you?
Article Summary
You ask a student a question. They answer, and you read that answer as what they know. You have done it a thousand times — and so has every teacher who ever taught you. But what if the answer was never about them? What if a word they have nodded along to for years means something completely different inside their head, and nothing you have asked so far could ever bring it out? There is an exercise that can. It has no right answer and no way to get it wrong. And it may change what you think happens when you ask.
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