Thursday, May 1, 2014

Responding to students’ answers



Teachers are on an ongoing process where they communicate expectations
to their students all the time.

  Especially when teachers respond to their 

students.This is a very important issue where teacher’s actions have 

embedded messages about what’s important and about her belief in the 

student’s capacity. The way teachers respond to student answers is 

probably more important than the questions themselves. Our responses as 

teachers signal to individuals whether it is safe to speak out or not. So we 

should watch out our words while responding to our students, we should 

not criticize, shout out, mock their answers, or even give the correct 

answer right away. We should give students a logical wait time and try to 

be supportive as possible as we can!


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