John+Robbins,+Student+Questioning,+Round+5

=Hot Seat - Student Questioning=


 * **Title**: ||< Hot Seat ||  ||   ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Social Studies ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 6 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 2 20 Minute Sessions ||
 * **Summary:** ||< One student sits in the "Hot Seat" and is asked and responds to targeted questions by the class. This provides opportunity for students to practice asking good guiding questions, use clarification techniques, and asking follow up questions to get the information that they are looking for. ||  ||   ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< [[file:Hot_Seat.pdf]] ||
 * Objectives: ||< * Hot seat can be used to review and gauge understanding on any unit. ||
 * Assessment: ||< Questions are recorded by teacher or another student and students will practice asking and responding to the questions in small groups. Questions and answers could be recorded by students in interview format. ||
 * Resources: ||< * None. ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || The activity went pretty well, though I was not entirely happy with the quality of questions being asked. I think I could make this activity better by first completing this activity with a topic that the students are already experts on. I do not think that we covered the topic deeply enough for students to be able to generate enough high level questions. I think that this will be a valuable activity as we continue doing it throughout the year. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * [|Here is where we recorded our hot seat.] ||

Discussion:
include component="comments" page="page:John Robbins, Student Questioning, Round 5" limit="100" I was looking at the questions for type - it seems many were of the Right There variety. A great strategy for a questioning unit would QAR - Question Answer Relationships. The relationship is not only between the Q & A, but the process of how you go from Q to A. The four types of QARs are: **Right There** - you can point to the answer or a one word response, **Think and Search** - the answer is there in the text film, painting what have you, but the answer is found after a search and found in many different aspects of the "object". **Author & You** - these are the questions that require both an examination of the "text" but also the knowledge the reader brings to the inquiry - personal knowledge of the subject or just life sense. These are the meaty inference questions. The last is **On Your Own** - these are questions whose answers are independent of any textual or objective source - there can be no wrong answers here as it is entirely subjective. Are you going to continue this for other units?