Do a simple online search for the word “teacher” and you will soon come across lots of photos of teachers standing at the front of a classroom with children waving their hands in the air ready to answer a question. But is this actually what constitutes good teaching? Or is it an age-old practice that should be consigned to history?
But what is the problem with students putting their hands up to answer a question, I hear you ask? That is how we were all taught as children when we were in school wasn’t it?
Well, the underlying problem is that this approach of raising a hand and offering to “participate” in answering the questions that a teacher poses equally means that students can do the exact opposite – keep their hand down so they don’t have to participate.
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