How does the teachers gatekeeping function influence classroom roles?
• Researcher Ned Flanders found that two-thirds of the classroom time is talk; two-thirds of that talk is from the teacher. • In the”pedagogical cycle,” teachers structure (lecture and direct), question, and react to student comments, and initiate about 85 percent of these verbal cycles. • Research shows that most questions are asked by the teacher and require only rote memory. • Ironically, while a major goal of education is to increase students’ curiosity and quest for knowledge, it is the teachers, not the students, who dominate and manage classroom interaction.
