TENTH REFLECTION PAPER

Merits of Questioning Strategy:

•       Request that students think and do rather than just remember

•       Handling incorrect responses/no responses

•       Prompting

•       -be positive

•       -rephrase the question

•       -use neutral prompting 

•       Support active, student-centered learning

•       Facilitate inquiry-based learning

•       Help students to construct knowledge

•       Help students to develop problem-solving skills

•       Improve long-term retention of knowledge

•       Promote student learning

•       Identify for the teacher the cognitive understanding of the student

•       Build creative and inventive outcomes through a capacity for question finding

•       Foster student meta-cognition 

 Demerits of Questioning Strategy:

 •       Time consuming.

•       Minimum coverage of the context.

•       Challenging for different kinds of learners.

•       Calling students randomly maximizes incorrect response that discourages the std.