My Questioning Style

My host teacher and I were having a discussion about a mentorship conference she had recently been to at West Virginia University. Here she talked to me about ways to observe a teacher's questioning style and how important it is. This made me start thinking about how I was calling on students to answer questions. The first day that I kept track of who I was calling on I realized that I was constantly calling on only the people who had their hands up. This was something that I hadn't even noticed until then. I decided the second day that I would try scattering who I called on by calling on students who might not being paying attention or maybe were off task. By doing this I didn't really feel as if I was really getting good answers from the students. Instead of them answering the questions it made me have to do most of the question answering myself. Since, the students didn't know the answers. So today as I was teaching my vocabulary lesson to the students I made sure that I called on all types of students. I called on the students who were raising their hands, paying attention, off task, and more. I think it was more successful today because the students were unsure of who I was actually going to chose to answer the questions.
I did notice that from the beginning I was not choosing the students in the typical "T" structure that most research has shown teachers to do. I think this is because I was only calling on the students with raised hands, which in our class is scattered throughout the classroom. I hope that in the future I can keep a tally of each student to see what my true questioning style is. Perhaps this could be an observation by a mentor.