My adviser Alan, helped me a lot with this, pinpointing how a question could be rephrased to become more genuine and therefore hopefully invoking answers that are also genuine and informative.
From toying around with my previous questions, I am beginning to realise that I find it quite difficult to ask genuinely concrete questions.
I have only put three below as I am very wary of slipping back into my old habit.
Even now I am unsure if the third question is phrased well enough or whether it will just gain nothing but a yes or no answer.
I am extremely interested in how we can encourage motivation but at the same time still maintain discipline within a class so that is why I have left the question in.
1) What do teachers say about the approaches that they find
most effective in teaching dance to teenagers aged 12-15?
2) What do teachers say about the approaches that they find
most effective in teaching dance to teenagers aged 15-18? Are there different
ways more effective than that when teaching the 12-15 class?
3) Do teachers find that they can still maintain discipline within a class when taking a relaxed, friendly approach to encourage teenage students?
After looking at the third question again maybe a more accurate way to put it would be:
What way have teachers found to approach teenage students that is both encouraging and inspiring motivation but at the same time keeping discipline within a class?
What do you think?
Its interesting isn't it, just rewording the basic questions can trigger a whole different set of responses. I haven't yet had any feedback from Alan on my first questions, so I shall be interested to see what he says. I think you could combine both of your versions of question 3 to read something along the line of " How can teachers approach teaching teenagers in a friendly relaxed way to encourage motivation and inspiration, yet still maintain the discipline within the class?" Just a thought!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kym :) I know exactly! I find it extremely difficult to word a question. I know what I want to ask in my head, but nobody else does, so if I don't word the question correctly I could end up getting an answer to a question that I never actually wanted or a question that is not really a question at all and more like a statement of what I already think.
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