Inquiry Based Learning Questions

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For my Week 8  Investment Blog, I am presenting 3 questions from our assigned readings.  

1) For your future students and/or future school administrators  

When a teacher asks students to sit and gather your thoughts before a discussion, do you find that time productive or distracting?

2) For your cooperating teacher and/or university supervisor  

Laura Metrick, how do you use the think-pair-share? Do you find it productive for students to gather their thoughts?

3) For one of your current virtual mentors (be specific!) and/or your cohort  

To Team Witmer virtual Mentors, what is an effective way to use the think-pair-share approach? I think it would be a cool idea to introduce new topics but I'm not sure if that is the proper time to use this approach.

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