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.