What should I do if a student gives a completely wrong answer in class?

When the teacher asks a question in class, the student gives a completely wrong answer. At this point, many teachers' first reaction is:

No, who will come again

Good idea, who else would like to add

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It seems that everyone hasn't figured it out yet. The answer is actually

These responses may seem efficient, but they actually miss out on the most valuable teaching resource - the error that exposes true thinking:

Negative Skip ": Students remain silent from then on - because" wrong answer=shame ".

'Comfort replacement': Covering up students' cognitive gaps, teaching becomes' superficially smooth '.

Teacher's self answer ": The classroom returns to a" one-man classroom ", where students remember the answer but do not upgrade their thinking.

The true teaching efficiency lies not in "speed", but in "understanding". Spending 2 minutes dealing with a typical error often results in the next 20 minutes of true efficiency.

Three steps to turn mistakes into teaching highlights

Step 1: Protect your heart first, then explore the cause

Goal: Eliminate awkwardness and establish a safe environment for expression. Avoid saying, "No," "Who else has a different idea?" You can say:

I understand your thought process

Thank you for being willing to share this idea, it is particularly valuable

Let's take a look at this idea together, what can we discover? "(Change" you "to" us ")

Key: Make students feel understood rather than corrected.

Step 2: Help the student "express" their thoughts

Objective: To restore the thought path and locate cognitive breakpoints. Avoid saying, 'You're mistaken here.' You can say:

How did you consider the first step? Can you tell us about it? "(Guiding self reflection)

(If the student cannot explain clearly): "I guess you came up with the 'XX method' because you saw the word 'XX', right? ”(Say the underlying message for him)

Have you noticed? He actually started from the 'XX perspective', which makes a lot of sense. ”(Reveal reasonable ingredients to the whole class)

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Key: It's not picking mistakes, but decoding - bringing the logic behind the errors to the surface.

Step 3: The whole class works together to 'repair the road'

Goal: Not to provide direct answers, but to guide collective correction. To avoid saying 'the correct answer is...', one can say:

Now that we've come this far, we find it a bit difficult to get around. Who can help us adjust and make this path work? "(Inspiring collective wisdom)

Great! This adjustment not only makes it work, but also allows us to see the key points that are most prone to 'confusion'

Finally, you can say to the first student again, "Thank you! It is because of your ideas that our whole class has made this profound discovery." (Let him sit down with a sense of achievement)

At the most microscopic level, education is a process of repeatedly facing errors, misunderstanding errors, and transforming errors. How the teacher responds to mistakes determines the temperature and depth of the classroom.

Next time, when a student says an incorrect answer - please don't rush to turn the page. It's time to press the 'pause button', which is the moment when all students truly start thinking.