The Effectiveness of Using Teacher Questioning Strategies in Classroom Learning Activity

Syarifah Rahmah

Have you ever worried when you teach your students in teaching learning process? You explained the lesson like a professional teacher in front of class but nobody can take a part. It will make you stress and feel failed to be a teacher. But, do not worry every problem has a solution to solve it. When you feel failed to be a teacher because you teach in passive class and you feel like you talking to yourself all day long. There are teacher questioning strategies in classroom learning activity to change your passive class to be an active class.

In teaching learning process, there is an interaction process between students and teacher that is called asking and giving a question. Questioning to student must be applied in questioning strategies to make the situation at the classroom more interested and enjoyed by all participants.  Asking a question to the student in teaching learning process can stimulate them to know what they are going to learn and the teacher should know how far his/her student understand about the topic. It will make learning process more easier and fun. There are several advantages of using teacher questioning strategies in classroom learning activity.

  First, when teacher asked a question to his/her students, teacher letting students know something about the importance of certain ideas and information. Second, asked a question can be used to promote preparation. If  the teacher always asks a question about previous lesson when class start, the teacher would know that the student coming to class prepared. Third, teacher question can engage students. Good question can raise student’s interest, make them wonder why, get them to think and motivate them to make connection to the lesson of the day. This advantage is magnified when teacher plays a bit with a question and the last advantages of asking question in classroom learning activity is to improve student speaking skill. When teacher asked a question to the student, it will help the student to practice their language by answering the question and they will get a feedback. And it’s one of those skills that developed better with feedback as stated by Maryellen (2011)

Being a teacher not only teaching in your classes everyday but you know how to engage your student during teaching and learning process. According to Newman (2012) teacher should use a variety questioning strategies to engage students in classroom learning activity. In addition, when teacher use questioning strategies in learning process  it means students would have opportunity to express their own idea and it support to develop a good discussion in the classroom learning activity.

To conclude, giving and asking question in teaching learning process is very important. But, not all of teacher applied teacher questioning strategies in teaching learning process. So if you want to be a good teacher and want your student enjoy you class just apply teacher questioning strategies in teaching learning process. I wonder the students might be more interested in participation if we did.

I AM A NEW BLOGGER

SYARIFAH RAHMAH

Have you ever feel confused when someone asked you to create thousands poem in a night? It can describe my feeling when I got a question “how is your feeling as a new blogger?” some say to be a blogger is doing an amazing things and you can take down the world by using a computer. I still remember when my teacher asked me to create an account to access the blog. I created the blog but, I did not access it. I confused what I am going to write in my first blog, I was staring at my computer and confused what kind of written that should I write and it happened for a few hours until I decided to begin my first sentence with “am I a blogger?”.

I love reading a lot of poems and romance fiction when I was teenagers and sometimes all of written book is does not like my expectation. I still remembered when funny idea plays on my mind and I imagine that I will create my own story by my pen and I will make my romance fiction as good as my expectation. I start to write my own story in a book with a pen until I have many short stories and dozens of poems in my collection’s book but, when someone ask me to write my story in computer and share it on blog, I felt confuse and stuck on the way, because I do not know how to begin my first sentence. I know you will laugh and say if I am a conservative person. But, believe me when you used to have breakfast with rice and suddenly someone changed it with a cup of coffee you will feel nauseous. Just like me, when I used to love writing but, I have to change it with blogging, I feel so nervous and confuse, that is why I do not access my account like others. If you ask me " do you love writing?" yes I do but if you ask me " do you love blogging?" I do not know because this is my first time I access my own blog and share my story with you guys ☺☺☺