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5 Better Ways To Say 'I Don't Know' In The Classroom

5 Better Ways To Say 'I Don't Know' In The Classroom | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.edudemic.com - December 31, 2013 9:56 PM
Do you allow students to answer a question with the response "I don't know" in the classroom? Perhaps you should consider no longer allowing that phrase and instead offering up these five other ways that might get students thinking a bit more.
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How often do you hear a student say "I don't know." Here are five alternative suggestions that you might offer up to your students. Why? If we want our students to become critical thinkers they need to be able to ask questions. Rather than accepting the answer "I don't know" have the student think a bit more and come up with a better question. Click through to the post to see three additional questions and share your own if you have other suggestions.

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Kirsten Macaulay's curator insight, January 1, 2014 5:10 AM

5 Better Ways To Say 'I Don't Know' In The Classroom

1. May I please have more information?

2. May I have some time to think?

3. Would you please repeat the question?

4. Where could I find more information about the?

5. May I ask a friend for help? Good ideas!
R. Alisha J. Hill's curator insight, January 3, 2014 2:12 AM

How do you engage the student when he/she says "I don't know"?
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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform : NPR

Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform : NPR | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.npr.org - September 17, 2012 9:18 PM
Teachers' expectations about their students' abilities affect classroom interactions in myriad ways that can impact student performance. Students expected to succeed, for example, get more time to answer questions and more specific feedback.

A fascinating look at what can happen when teachers expectations for their students change, looking at "how do we get teachers to have the right expections?"

Seven suggestions are provided for ways "teachers can change their expections."

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Spice Wang's curator insight, November 18, 2013 5:50 PM

Right expectation let students have clear understanding of what they are supposed to achieve and behave. Hence, a right expectation is a good start of classroom management.
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Smart Strategies That Help Students Learn How to Learn

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From blogs.kqed.org - October 7, 2013 10:41 PM

"What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know.

To put it in more straightforward terms, anytime a student learns, he or she has to bring in two kinds of prior knowledge: knowledge about the subject at hand (say, mathematics or history) and knowledge about how learning works. Parents and educators are pretty good at imparting the first kind of knowledge. We’re comfortable talking about concrete information: names, dates, numbers, facts. But the guidance we offer on the act of learning itself—the “metacognitive” aspects of learning—is more hit-or-miss, and it shows."

Beth Dichter's insight:

As teachers do we emphasize what we want students to learn, or do we focus on how they should go about learning and the necessary skills? This post focuses on these issues looking at current research. It also provides two sets of questions, one where "Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use..." and the other "a series of proactive questions for teachers to drop into the lesson on a “just-in-time” basis—at the moments when students could use the prompting most."

Another great article by Annie Murphy Paul that provides much food for thought.

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Phil Turner's curator insight, October 8, 2013 6:49 PM

A question of study rather than memorising ... how a student of a topic goes about constructing meaning and negotiating understanding.
Mary Cunningham's curator insight, October 13, 2013 12:13 PM

This is a great article about ensuring that students understand the mechanics of their own learning.
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