The emphasis of asking open-ended questions so students won’t worry about getting the answer right or wrong impacted me the most with this chapter because I never truly realized that before. I guess it is indeed true that when you ask a question that has a distinct answer, the students are going to be more hesitant to raise their hand because of the worry of getting it wrong. Open-answered questions and discussions are much more ideal because it lessens the worry for the students, and it will seem to them that they are contributing and are correct. I can relate to a specific example of this as I was leading a class discussion about goals & wishes with my mentor teacher. We asked for someone to give us a wish, any wish in the world they had. No one raised their hand, and for a moment I was standing there struggling, so my mentor teacher spoke up, saying “write one goal and one wish on your papers right now.” Students were worried to simply raise their hand to give a goal or wish. When we had them write, their pencils were moving immediately, they had some in their minds, they were just afraid to speak up and share.
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