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You never answer our questions!” a student proclaimed to me just this morning. He continued by saying “It’s half good for us, but also half infuriating!”
Another student chimed in “Well, he does kind of answer us… but usually by asking more questions.”
This is something that I have been very deliberate about this year, and it has been very challenging. Whenever a student asks a question, before I answer, I always consider the following: is this student asking this question so that they can stop thinking or keep thinking? If it is the former, then I never answer, I usually just ask a question back in order to get them to reflect on what they really want to know.
Teachers can spot these stop thinking questions but sometimes it would be so much easier just to answer them. For the benefit of the learner, we have to resist.
