Component 3b is a way for teachers to deepen the understanding of students rather than a quiz. It is when teachers use both divergent and convergent questions that are used in a way that has the students make connections or challenge previous ideas. It is linking ideas that once seemed unrelated to one another to discover new concepts. Overall, it is a way to promote deep critical thinking in students and to not make the process appear boring or stressful. Encouraging students to dig deep and form discussions that help them extend their learning and understanding. It is important because it engages and pushes students to become critical thinkers through germane learning. This gets students to make connections and discover new thoughts. Quality of questions/prompts is providing those high quality questions that make the students think and reflect on a variety of answers. It deepens their knowledge base and has them test their ideas against their peers in the case of discussion Describe each element in your own words. Discussion techniques is not a way to make the classroom full of just explanations. Instead it would be where the teacher poses questions and prompts the students to put their views or thoughts out to be heard. Student participation is making sure the engagement is even across all boards, It is engaging students in the questions or discussions when they are currently not a part of it. I can use this in my classroom through the use of well developed discussion days. While reading a book we may come across topics that are good for students to voice their opinions on, discussion days could function to help with this.
Artifacts:
Participation rubric
Questions and answers in lesson plans for prompting
Discussion Days
Charlotte Danielson, (2011). The Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument. Retrieved from http://static.pdesas.org/content/documents/danielson_rubric_32.pdf