Questioning
As teachers we use questioning to help support student learning. We should plan for and use a range of questioning strategies in our practice – questions that are open, closed and hypothetical, or ‘what if’ type.
Guidelines
- Questioning (VELS)
Websites
- Asking good questions (Dalton&Smith)
- The Question Mark
- From Now On (FNO) - The Educational Technology Journal
- Questioning
- Tips for Teachers - Asking Good Questions (University of Texas)
- Brualdi, Amy C. (1998). Classroom questions. Practical Assessment, Research&Evaluation, 6(6). Retrieved October 19, 2008 from
- Nine questions I ask my students on the first day of school (Blog: Teachers at Risk)
- Model Questions based on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (University of St Francis)(
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- Asking Better Questions with Bloom's Taxonomy
- Asking Open Questions (Teachers' Perspective) You tube
- Socratic questions (changingminds.org)
- Six types of Socratic questions (University of Michigan)
Practice in Schools
Publications
- Godinho, S.&Wilson, J. (2008). Helping your pupils to ask questions. New York: Routledge,
- Ash, Eve&Quarry, Peter (2007). The art of questioning [videorecording 29 min]. New York: Ash Quarry Productions, Insight Media (Firm)
- Larson, Bruce E.&Keiper, Timothy A. (2007). Instructional strategies for middle and high school. New York : Routledge.