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Communicating Ocean Sciences

Session 7: Question Lab

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Session 7 objectives Experience the challenge and appreciate the importance

of employing both planned and improvised questions Practice the use of different discussion-facilitating

strategies, including the discussion map, questioning toward specific concept understandings, and open-ended discussion of student discoveries

Observe modeling of different discussion-facilitating strategies

Gain a sense of the diversity in student developmental levels, science backgrounds, and learning styles

Observe classroom management approaches used with students

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Quick Write

How is your classroom placement going? What is the best thing about it and what are you having the most trouble with?

What are you expecting, excited or worried about during the sink/float activity today with the visiting students?

Discussion Prompts about Experiences with Invited Students

1. Describe the interactions with students that went well. What is your evidence that they went well?

2. What kinds of questions proved to be most successful? What is your evidence that they were successful?

3. Describe interactions that didn’t go well, and what kinds of questions were not successful. What is your evidence?

4. What would you like to do differently next time?

5. In what ways do you think this experience will be different in the classroom? What do you think you wll have to do differently?

6. What did you learn from this experience?

7. What do you think your students took away from the experience? How do you know?

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Reflection: Quick Write

Write about how the session has influenced your ideas on questioning and teaching.

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Homework

Reading from course reader

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