questioning skills (new )

By: Nasrin Tayyab

Beaconhouse School System Valencia Town Campus Lahore

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this session teachers will be able to:

Find the common errors in questioning.

Develop an understanding of key tactics in questioning.

Design questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

AMAZING FACTS:

An average teacher asks 400 questions in a day that’s 70,000 a year!

One-third of all teaching time is spent asking questions

Most questions are answered in less than a second

Why do we question ???

THE PURPOSE OF QUESTIONS:

Interaction Challenge Influence Progress Assessment

•To check and build on prior knowledge

To interact, interest, engage and challenge

To focus thinking on key concepts and issues

  When someone: guides , doesn’t pull you along..

urges to go forward, doesn’t suppress you..

opens the way , doesn’t take you to the place..

encourages to ponder, doesn’t provide you with answers..

You may call that person,

“A Good Teacher” Indeed!!

GOOD QUESTIONS VS GOOD ANSWERS

It is important to know not only, the types

of questions but also the tactics of asking

those questions in an effective manner because they are the baseline for answers.

How to ask

When to ask

What to ask

GOODANSWERS

One obvious tactics of effective

questioning !

Minimize the daily routine

errors!

Activity: 1 Role Play

THE KEY TACTICS

Structuring Pitching & putting clearly Directing & distributing Pausing & pacing Prompting & probing Listening & responding Sequencing

I am st

ill not

too sure

what

do you

mean ??

????? Well, l

et me

make more

clear it to

you !!!

Encourage students to ask questions at

any time.

Give adequate consideration to all

questions--never evade a question.

Scatter questions over the entire class.

Use “APPLE”.

Yes

“APPLE”!!!

It’s a trick to

remember, how to

use questions

effectively !!!

APPLE Ask the Question: Questions should be prepared in your

lesson plan in advance.

Pause: Let the learners think about what you are asking. Give the learners 3-5 seconds in order to respond.

Pick: Pick on a learner by name to answer the question. Make sure of 100% participation of all students

Listen: Listen to the answer, make eye contact with the learner and use encouraging remarks.

Expound: Explain the learner's answer. Generate a dialog based on the learner's response. If the learner's response was incorrect, redirect the question back to the other learners.

Activity: 2a Designing Questions

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

LOWER ORDER QUESTIONS Knowledge( Remembering )

Comprehensi

on(Understandi

ng)

Lower

Order

Questions

HIGHER ORDER QUESTIONS

Higher Order Questi

ons

TYPES & KEY WORDS OF LOWER ORDER QUESTIONS

Types: Closed/direct questions Summarising & reflecting Questions Clarifying & Guessing questions Recall and Process Questions (What, Where, Who, When, Which)

Key Words: Memorize, Define, Identify, Repeat, Recall, State, Write, List & Name, Describe, Distinguish, Explain, Interpret, Predict, Recognize & Summarize, tell, label

TYPES & KEY WORDS OF HIGHER ORDER QUESTIONS

Types: Open Question Probing Questions Cognitive Questions Evaluative & provocative Questions

( How, Why, What/Where may/might )Key Words Apply, Compare, Contrast, Demonstrate, Examine, Relate,

Solve & Use, Analyze, Differentiate, Distinguish, Explain, Infer, Research , Create, Design, Develop Formulate, Integrate & Organize, Assess, Critique, Determine, Evaluate, Judge, Justify, Measure & Recommend, Construct, Plan

Activity: 2b Determine the types of the questions,

you designed previously.

Rearrange them according to the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

QUESTIONS TO AVOID

Leading questions Limiting questions Assumption-laden questions Multiple questions Hypothetical questions

Plan/write questions before hand

Wait for an answer –

Use questions to develop collaborative work

Know the answer to your questions

Start a lesson with a question

Review the questions in the plenary/wrap up session

Tips

BOTTOM LINE

Try to come out of Comfort Zone as Risk and effort are what make you smart and talented!!!!

REMEMBER !!!!

Teaching is the art of asking questions. (Socrates) & Good learning starts with questions, not

answers.