After watching the Bueller clip you can see how quickly an instructor can ask and then answer their own questions. As you will learn through out this course - how you ask questions creates your classroom culture. In Bueller class why answer because you know the teacher is going to answer. Plus, his method is boring the students to death.
Here are benefits to waiting out the students.
Gives students time to think before answering.
The longer you wait the better quality of answers you will receive.
No wait time leads to shout outs (in previous module) and we've discuss the draw back to this method.
Few tips to help you with wait time.
Wait time depends on the type of question you ask
Recall type of answers should take between 1 to 4 seconds
Computation questions takes between 4 to 6 seconds
Insight questions requite 6 to 10 seconds
Strategies you could use
Think pair share
Show of hands wait for 4 or 5 before starting
Think time and cold callsResearch has shown instructors who have been practice/trained on quality wait time has seen the following benefits. (Journal of Research in Science Teaching)
The number of students who failed to respond when called on decreased.
The number of unsolicited but appropriate responses increased.
The length of student responses increased.
The number of students statements where evidence was used to make inferences increased.
The number of responses form student identified by the teacher as less able increased.
The number of student-to-student interactions increased.
The number of student questions increased.
Wait Time - Maggie Johnson (0:56)
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For more check out https://www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/think.htm