3. ALL-AMERICAN WAIT TIME (Questioning)
Description: This method helps ensure that students have enough time to answer questions.
Application: Use this protocol as a way to enhance a question-answer activity.
Process: Ask a fellow teacher to sit in class and record verbal questions asked and subsequent wait time. From that information, create a plan to extend wait time for students. Remind students that some questions deserve five seconds of thought and others require more. Label the thinking questions by telling students that a particular question is a one-, five-, or a ten-second question. Ask a question, avoiding scaffolds or interruptions while they are meant to be thinking. Encourage students to jot down ideas, and after the appropriate wait time, discuss with the class.
Description: This method helps ensure that students have enough time to answer questions.
Application: Use this protocol as a way to enhance a question-answer activity.
Process: Ask a fellow teacher to sit in class and record verbal questions asked and subsequent wait time. From that information, create a plan to extend wait time for students. Remind students that some questions deserve five seconds of thought and others require more. Label the thinking questions by telling students that a particular question is a one-, five-, or a ten-second question. Ask a question, avoiding scaffolds or interruptions while they are meant to be thinking. Encourage students to jot down ideas, and after the appropriate wait time, discuss with the class.
Reference and/or for more information:
3. All American Wait Time
http://www.agpa.uakron.edu/p16/btp.php?id=wait-time
3. All American Wait Time
http://www.agpa.uakron.edu/p16/btp.php?id=wait-time