TPO 21 - Question 4
Questioning Awareness of Effect
When a student engages in disruptive behavior in the classroom, it negatively impacts on both the teacher’s ability to teach and other students’ ability to learn. One way a teacher can correct disruptive behavior is by questioning awareness of effect. With this technique, when a student disrupts the class, the teacher asks a question that draws attention to the negative effect of the student’s behavior. The teacher then does not wait for an answer, but immediately continues teaching. By thus simply drawing attention to the effect of the student’s behavior, the teacher can often lead the student to discontinue the behavior.
1. So I used to teach a class of eight year olds and one problem I sometimes had was getting the kids to raise their hands when they wanted to answer a question.
2. Like lots of teachers, I had the rule that if a student wanted to answer a question, they needed to raise their hand in the air and wait I speak call their name before speaking.
3. That gave all the students a chance to participate, which helped everyone get more out of the discussion.
4. But some kids had troubling following the rule.
5. I remember there was on girl Saran who didn't raise her hand when she wanted to answer a question.
6. She would just call out the answer and this was frustrating for the other children who were waiting patiently with their hands raised.
7. So one day when Sarah called out I asked if she know that calling out was unfair to the other students..
8. I said to her "Sarah, do you realize that when you call out an answers without raising your hand, you are not being fair to the other students?
9. You are not giving them a change to answer questions too and I didn't wait for her to answer, I just continued teaching the class and after that every time I asked the class a question, Sarah didn't call out the answer.
10. She raised her hand along with everyone else.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 518.0 592.248995984 87% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 143.0 155.574297189 92% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.62237762238 3.80514564318 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45807182446 3.525876923 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.70889976384 1.79077849142 95% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 93.7148594378 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.587412587413 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 167.4 185.844578313 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0572359019653 0.0650381309087 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 4.35341365462 161% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.4285714286 68.503853103 30% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.4224796133 21.3332995233 86% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.09857142857 25.9943957902 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.84080076468 7.84667146824 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 42.0642570281 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.91836734694 4.02192344571 73% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.74773012784 3.1217529195 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.08040816327 1.45093177766 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.647837719613 0.99851816184 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 43.0 39.0421686747 110% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.39 7.12997991968 118% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.19511627907 0.185688545393 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.290103206118 0.155154303396 187% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.35 47.1480722892 88% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.289160839161 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174085006578 0.189427763521 92% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.35 6.2937751004 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.91 3.39508032129 145% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.69 59.7592369478 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.944833333333 0.995987282463 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.75851120127 0.656000678711 116% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.52249073911 2.60215298798 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.48174281178 1.56821927147 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03143893591 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.274661524476 0.317803793328 86% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.