The way questions are structured will create meaningful discussion between teacher and students. Questions stimulate thought and in order to have students responding, it becomes necessary to have the students feel comfortable with expressing their ideas.
In the think-ink-pair-share strategy, students were encouraged to work in pairs, thereby making it easier for discussion and sharing to take place. I particularly liked this strategy, as the questions posed steered the discussion and became the platform for total participation of the students. In a whole class setting, some students would be left out of the discussion as they would feel uncomfortable if they provided off-base responses. Creating a comfortable learning environment for our students and providing them with questions that would cause them to respond positively becomes most important.
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