1) For your future students and/or future school administrators
How can I speak to you in a way that will enhance your performance?
I'd like to ask this to my students because I think it would be a great way to get the dialogue started regarding work and business like behavior in my class. This question would also give the students an opportunity to feel like their voice is heard as a group. Lastly, I think the resulting conversation would be a wonderful time to extend my classroom expectations and elaborate that respect is a two way street.
2) For your cooperating teacher and/or university supervisor
How do you keep a group of students engaged in a lecture heavy class session?
This is a question I'd be asking my cooperating teacher and would likely find the answer as I watch them teach throughout the semester. My current answer would be to supplement the content with constant checks for understandings and potentially even mini activities along the way. I guess that begs the question, is it still a lecture if you have activities planned along the way? So that's two questions in that area.
3) For one of your current virtual mentors (be specific!) and/or your cohort
Can you make a lecture interesting?
To my fearless cohort, this question is for you. I ask this mostly as a prompt for discussing best management practices and past experiences. It may take practice but we need to ensure that we use our talents and gifts in a way that makes lecture somewhat interesting. Brody could supplement his content with a few devious licks on Tik-Tok and I can digress for progress at least 3 times in a 45 minute lesson. So the question becomes how will you make your lectures interesting?
Hey Justin! I really liked reading your questions that you formed after reading the content this week. I particularly liked the question you would ask to your students. I was going to ask/write something similar, but asked another burning question instead. However, I definitely think it is a good question to ask and one that your students would appreciate. In answer to your question to the cohort, "Can you make a lecture interesting?" I would say yes. Adding videos, pictures, diagrams, to the presentation as well as using a new presenting platform can help keep students listening. Also, speaking with confidence and authority, cracking a joke every now and then, moving around the room, and providing/encouraging hands-on examples/activities such as guided note sheets can all be great ways to keep a lecture interesting and all ways that I have seen used that have kept my interest. I have yet to use any of these as far as I can remember, but hope to use them in the future.
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