As teachers, we often are the ones providing the information to the students. Students ask questions if they have any. Sometimes they do not ask question because they understand the topics or they are not paying attention.
We are moving away from the teacher holding all of the information. Through the COVID Pandemic, we have watched more and more students teaching themselves. They have been given the assignment and they take off from there. Teachers are the facilitator. We should want our students discovering the learning on their own if possible. However, it is still the teachers’ responsibility to ask questions of students. Some students will work through an entire project and when they get to the end and turn it in we find out they did not understand the topic, process or purpose. By asking higher-level questions, students and teachers can determine if the students understand the topic.
We live in a society where level one or basic knowledge questions are answered with a computer or a cell phone. We need to ask students questions that create thought provoking answers. We use to have standards that asked the knowledge based questions but students now have to be able to apply or infer what they know in order to answer higher-level thinking.
Our society today is moving from a knowledge base to an application base. There are many resources that we have access to for the answers to the basic questions. Companies need people that can find the answers to the basic question but cannot apply that knowledge to the solution of a problem or the creation of a new product. It is up to us to teach the processes to the students.
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