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How does Mr. Vazquez use questioning during his art demonstration?
How do questions help Mr. Vazquez know when students are ready to create their own art?
How do you use questions in your own classroom?

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Kendra Olson Feb 14, 2022 2:21pm

How does Mr. Vazquez use questioning during his art demonstration?

Mr. Vasquez uses open ended questions to check for understanding.

2. How do questions help Mr. Vazquez know when students are ready to create their own art?

By using open ended questions, Mr. Vasquez was ablr to determine if the students were using the correct vocabulary and terms to go with the lessons.

3. How do you use questions in your own classroom?

I ask open ended questions to see how each child is thinking. Not all students solve problems in the same way.

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Karon Valdivieso Jun 6, 2021 3:01pm

Mr Vasquez uses questions to determine his students understanding of the lesson being taught. Using open ended questions forces students to use their cognitive abilities to contemplate the meaning and vocabulary. When students know the teacher will always ask thought provoking question and not be able to just answer yes or no. All students know their answers are important.

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Lisa stinson Aug 6, 2020 11:37pm

By asking quesitons, you can check for student understanding. But it's equally important that you're asking the right questions. By asking more open ended questions, Mr. V was able to acertain the students engagement and understanding. It required the students to know the correct terminology. Instead of giving them the answers and asking yes or no questions, which may not give a teacher enough information about a student's understanding of the content.

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Haag Miranda May 23, 2020 2:09am

How does Mr. Vazquez use questioning during his art demonstration?

He uses questions to supplement his lesson and continually check for understanding. He does this by asking questions that have multiple answers and that make students think. I also noticed he asked questions they may not necessarily know the answer to but gives them hints to help them get there.

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Avery Baird May 14, 2020 5:58pm

The teacher does a really great job asking questions to help the students display their knowledge of the subject. This is a really great way to help the students to stay engaged and also help the teacher and students clear up what needs to be touched on again before the lesson is over as well.

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Checking in with Questions Transcript

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Speaker 1: Off-center composition. What do you think made everything go from the center to the sides? Go. What I

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Speaker 1: Off-center composition. What do you think made everything go from the center to the sides? Go. What I do to facilitate successful conversations with these scholars: questions. Questions, questions, questions, questions, questions, questions, the right questions. Am I aligned with the characteristics of 19th century artwork?

Speakers: Yes.

Speaker 1: Is this aligned with that?

Speakers: Yes.

Speaker 1: Really, are you sure?

Speakers: Yes.

Speaker 1: Someone explain to me what is off-center composition. Marcus?

Marcus: It would probably be in the middle. Like middle to the right.

Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a little to the right. Today, it was about learning the characteristics of 19th century artwork. I want you to create an artwork in your sketchbook of a common everyday object. Should be in the center of your table. I want you to only use colors because we're focusing only on colors. Our goal is to boil it down to three bullet points, just three different criteria. And what was that third thing, what was it called, Joseph? Arrangement composition is the word. More specific to 19th century. Scholars can synthesize very well if they know the material, and if they don't, that's the flag that I'm looking for. Okay, what do I need to touch on again? What do I need to repeat for them? Brandon, help us out.

Brandon: So what we need to be focusing on is off-center and composition.

Speaker 1: Yes, sir. So what is it called, guys?

Speakers: Off-center composition.

Speaker 1: Get to it. But it's all about the questions. It's about asking the right questions. You don't get anywhere if you're not asking the right questions.

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