How can you give your students opportunities to think through answers for themselves?
09/07/07 09:06 Filed in: Thinking
through answers
You hear a student say: I need to
think through answers for myself. I listen to
teachers talk. They give good answers. But to really
understand the answers, I need to think them through
for myself. Maybe the teachers could ask more
questions. Questions that have more than one right
answer. One of my teachers asks us “Where do you
belong?” all the time.
You think: She’s right. To really understand a Biblical perspective, students need to think through the answers.
You ask: How can I give my students opportunities?
Answer: Here are 10 things you can use to give your students opportunities to think through Biblical perspective answers for themselves:
You think: She’s right. To really understand a Biblical perspective, students need to think through the answers.
You ask: How can I give my students opportunities?
Answer: Here are 10 things you can use to give your students opportunities to think through Biblical perspective answers for themselves:
- Case studies
- Discussions
- Document-based questions
- Field trips
- Generating and testing hypotheses
- Guest speakers students can interact with
- Journaling, essay writing
- Presentations
- Projects
- Open-ended questions
