Monday, March 26, 2012

NINTH RELECTION PAPER

Questioning Strategy  

Concept: is any sentence which has an interrogative form or function. In classroom settings teacher questions are defined as instructional cues or stimuli that convey to students the contents to be learned and directions for what they are to do and how they are to do it.

Purpose: 

  1. enhance understanding
  2. interactive/more participation
  3. to be conscious
  4. effective and efficient learning
  5. stimulate
  6. evaluation
  7. to gain students attention
  8. to maintain  flow of class
  9. to create a life long, independent learners who uses questioning as a tool to learn

Characteristics:

  1. up to students' level
  2. logically sequenced
  3. know the background

Classification:

  1. The literal level
  2. The inferential level
  3. The applied level
  4. Thinking time/wait time
  5. No hands questioning
  6. Basketball questioning 
  7. Conscripts and volunteers
  8. Phone a friend
  9. Hot seating
  10. Preview
  11. Pair rehearsal
  12. eavesdropping
  13. Big questions
  14. Fat questions
  15. Skinny question
  16. Seek a partial answer

 Types:

  1. Socratic Questioning

    • Conceptual Clarification Questions
    • Probing assumptions
    • Probing rationale, reasons and evidence 
    • Questioning view pionts and perspective
    • Probe implications and concequences
    • Questions about the questions
  2.  Blooms Taxonomy

    • Remembering
    • Understanding
    • Applying
    • Analysing 
    • Evaluating
    • Creating
  3.  Kipling's Questions

    • What
    • Why
    • When
    • Where
    • Who
    • How

Role of teacher:

  1. to ask different level thinking questions
  2. is a model of critical thinking who respects students' view points, probes their understanding and shows genuine interest in their thinking
  3. teacher poses questions that are more meaningful than those a novice of a given topic might develop on his/her own
  4. teacher creates and sustain friendly  environment
  5. teacher is approachable

Role of students:

  1. participate when called upon
  2. answer questions carefully and clearly as possible
  3. address the whole class
  4. be precise as possible in the interest of maximizing classroom tome and effectiveness

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