Preservice Elementary Teachers' Learning of Purposeful Questioning: The Nature of Advancing Questions

• In Event: Preservice Instructional Teaching Practices

Abstract

In an attempt to cultivate preservice teachers’ (PTs) questioning skills, we designed a module in which PTs practiced formulating advancing questions, explored the nature of their advancing questions, and identified the difficulties. We found that PTs in many instances struggled to create advancing questions of their own in response to specific student work, and their questions were not advancing, because they were irrelevant, vague, leading, or not tied to student work. We suggested next steps in order to address each of these difficulties.

Authors

• Ozgul Kartal, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
  Presenting Author

• Gorjana Popovic, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Presenting Author

• Susie Morrissey, Mercer University
  Presenting Author