Title: Get to Know Your Students: 11 Essential Questions To Ask
Headings: Get to Know Your Students
Get to Know Your Students
11 Essential Questions To Ask
You can quickly learn more about your ESL students by asking them the right questions.
How to Get to Know Your Students by Asking the Right Questions
Tap Into Their Emotions
Focus on Knowledge
Call on Experience
Encourage Creativity
Look for Ambition
Role Models
Imagination and Innovation
Love and Passion
Lifestyle
Opinion/Mindset/Principles
Life Lessons
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Content: Why?” Such questions encourage your students to think and critically form a reply that encompasses not only what they experienced but also how that experience affected and shaped their present mindset and life situation. 4
Encourage Creativity
Creativity is not a defining factor when it comes to learning English as a foreign language, but it might nonetheless reveal their learning aspirations. “How would you define creativity” or “Do you consider yourself a creative person?” can be ways to get students to realize their own untapped potential. 5
Look for Ambition
You can learn a great deal about a student’s learning success by asking questions that unveil his or her aspirations and goals in life, and “What would you change/do differently if you were a teacher/leader/an influential individual?” is a good question that helps a student focus on their desired future. Get to know your students by seeing how much they believe in their power to make a difference in the world. 6
Role Models
Young ESL learners are most likely to refer to sports and pop starts as their role models. Asking a student about their role models often shows that there is more than meets the eye to that student's character.