Inservice (2018, March 19). Why Calling on a Student Should be the Last Thing You Do. Retrieved April 04, 2018

When we start our line of questioning with phrases like “Who can tell me … ?”, we risk minimizing the learning for too many of our students. The phrase, “Who can tell me,” often gives us just that — the student who can tell us. It may just be that the student who can tell us is the only student who can tell us. Picture a teacher holding a beach ball. She/he can only throw it to one student at a time.