Questioning Strategies
1. Give students ample time to generate their own answer to your questions. Wait 5 seconds after asking a factual question and 10 seconds after asking a complex question.
2. Include a 2nd wait time. Take two answers to every question so that each student has the opportunity to develop and complete his thought process.
3. Require students to write down their own answers to your question, instead of relying on other students to always answer.
4. Create questions that promote the problem solving process.
5. Ask 5 higher level questions per activity. Use Bloom’s and/or Marzano’s Taxonomy to help develop these questions.
6. Involve movement while asking questions. Doing two things at once causes the brain to work even harder!
7. Remove your students’ fear of answering questions in your classroom.
8. Be aware that random questions asked by your students may not be so random after all. Look for misconceptions your students may possess in the answers that they give.
9. Be careful not to reinforce wrong answers. What is said first is remembered the best- this goes for wrong answers as well.
10. Teach students the art of asking great questions. Model this art to your students through the questions you ask.
Carraway Center, 2003
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