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Charles Ames Fischer
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The Power of the Socratic Classroom
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Student Questions
Quite simply, students do not have enough practice asking their own questions. Ask many of them to jot down even a short a list of questions and they can't do it. In my experience, even adults begin to falter after trying to jot down more than 7 questions about something specific. Much of this has to do with curiosity and wonder. Most students don't have much of it. Neil Postman once quipped that children go to school as question marks but return as periods. We need to do more to help students develop curiosity and wonder - and helping them formulate questions is a great place to start.
Book Excerpt
The Power of the Socratic Classroom
Opportunities for students to write or ask their own questions are much less frequent, and in fact, in many learning situations, students are even discouraged from asking their own questions.
As early chapters of this book indicate, students do not have enough practice formulating or asking questions—and they certainly don’t have enough practice with writing and asking deep, meaningful questions. For example, according to Larry Lewin, most of the questions that students ask “either seek clarification on procedural matters (Which numbers are we supposed to do?); attempt to cut a deal (Can we write two paragraphs instead of three?); or try to detour the group from the lesson (What time does this period end?).”
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