We decided to ask five questions, and each had to have a good chance of yielding a good sound bite. If you look through some of the packages, you can see the various open-ended questions. My favorite: "What would your high school classmates have voted you most likely to do, and why?" The "and why" will bail you out on a "what" question.
I've included one of the videos below, featuring a lawmaker who says he liked to party in high school and then explains why.
Steve Elliott
Arizona State University
Phoenix
I think the natural inclination is for students to ask closed questions. I find it takes TONS of practice to get to a point where they understand what an open-ended question looks like. Typically I do an exercise where I model questioning with a good, better, best question activity where we evaluate which question of three fits in each category and why.
ReplyDelete****Steve, don't forget to tell us how to get those powerpoints from yesterday...