| Classroom Observation: Question 48: Was there a development
in the questioning? |
Conclusion: Out of the 19 observations where questions were recorded,
89% (17) demonstrated some limited development in the questions of the teachers and the
students. While there was development in 74% (14) of 19 teachers' questions, there was
only development in 16% (3) of 19 groups of students' questions.
Summary of findings:
These results are based on observations in 26 classrooms. Out of the
19 observations where questions were recorded, 89% (17) demonstrated some limited
development in the questions of the teachers and the students. While there was development
in 74% (14) of 19 teachers' questions, there was only development in 16% (3) of 19 groups
of students' questions.
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| Classroom Observation: Question 48: Individual Schools |
Key: A "user" is a school that already uses the loan service. A
"non-user" is a school that does not currently use the loan service.
1. School A: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
There was not a development in questioning but a repetition of action with the young
children.
2. School B: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questioning developed because there was a knowledge goal dependent on
layer upon layer of information being attained. The students' responses built up to give a
fuller picture of the artefact. There was no development in the students' questions but
there was a development in their responses.
3. School C: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
No.
4. School D: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questioning developed because there was a knowledge goal dependent on
layer upon layer of information being attained.
5. School E: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questioning developed because there was a knowledge goal dependent on
layer upon layer of information being attained.
6. School F: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
In the teacher's questions there was a development. These were layered in response to
the information about the loans that the children were feeding her in order that she could
draw them on the whiteboard without seeing them herself. The students were responsible for
building up this picture. There was no development in the students' questions but there
was a development in their responses.
7. School G: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
Yes. There was a development in the teacher's questions on the sheet she gave to the
students. But there was also a clear development in the students' own questions:
Example:
Student 1: "Ps. Charlotte of Wales? Princess! Maybe it belonged to her…"
Student 1: (later on in discussion) "I think a princess gave it to someone. Maybe an
officer. Maybe it's an award like a Victorian Cross?"
Student 2: "No, because awards are usually badges."
8. School H: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
As I did not see a lesson, and am working on evidence from the lesson, I do not know
which questions were asked.
9. School I: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
I was not shown a lesson.
10. School J: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
In the teacher's questions there was a development. She brought out the salient points
about a vehicle and then asked the students to compare them to vehicles today.
11. School K: User: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
In the teacher's questions there was a development. She was trying to draw out from
the student the different animals that live in Kenya from looking at a game reserve map
and the carved animal loans.
12. School L: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questions developed in response to the students' comments.
13. School M: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questions developed from the factual to the imaginative.
14. School N: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
Yes. One question led on to another through the interaction between both the students
and the teacher:
Student: "Do you get different creatures in different shells?"
Teacher: "That's a good one! Do you mean different types of creatures? If we go back
to the shell do you think the shape makes a difference?"
Student: "If it's a spiral it might be a curly creature."
Teacher: "So the size of the creature inside would have fitted their shell? Do they
change shells? Are they attached?"
Student: "How did they get in?"
Student: "For reproduction there's a little hole in the shell where the eggs come
out."
Teacher: "You'll have to find out."
15. School O: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
I was not shown a lesson.
16. School P: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
I was not shown a lesson.
17. School Q: User: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
Yes. There was a development in the teacher's questions in exploring the print with
the students.
18. School R: User: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
I was talked through the lesson but was not shown any questions.
19. School S: User: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
Yes. There was a definite move from the picture to students' personal experience and
opinions to the imagination.
20. School T: User: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The only questions I saw were the fliers sent to the tutor groups where there was one
main intriguing question to which students could find the answer by coming to see the
objects in the Senior Library.
21. School U: User: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
I did not hear any questions during the observation.
22. School V: Non-user: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
There was not really a development in the secondary students' questioning towards a
goal but there was a diversity of questions so that they covered a number of areas of
which they wanted the primary students to be aware.
23. School W: Non-user: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The students' questions were different for each artefact. They ranged from asking
whether the Native Americans had designer clothes to asking about the killing of the
Native Americans. The students asked a lot more questions than the teachers who simply
presented the artefacts to the individual students for perusal at their desks.
24. School X: Non-user: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
5 minutes per group was not really enough time for a lot of development in
questioning. However, the whole group was interested in the questions that members of the
group asked.
25. School Y: Non-user: Secondary
Was there a development in the questioning?
There was a development in the teacher's questions which were leading one boy to the
right conclusion about a medieval wax seal.
26. School Z: Non-user: Primary
Was there a development in the questioning?
The teacher's questions focused on different aspects of the objects. So the questions
broadened the knowledge and in that way there was some development.
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