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An explanation of the different types and patterns of questions primary teachers should ask and offers useful practical exercises to enable both experienced and trainee teachers to improve their own and others' questioning skills.
With this text, Trevor Kerry examines the place of questioning in the classroom and identifies why questions need to be a key part of the teacher's skills.
Give yourself real power by improving your skills in asking and answering questions. It really can lead to greater success. We use questioning throughout our lives and yet few have ever thought about the need and how to improve it. The Power of Advanced Questioning is a fascinating guide that introduces some new unique frameworks as well as the in’s and out’s of asking effective questions set against a backdrop of entertaining anecdotes to get to grips with the points being made. These techniques will propel you to a higher level of capability and the success you deserve. It will also cover a largely forgotten skill, answering questions effectively, which can yield fantastic results more efficiently than most people realise.
Questions and questioning play a major role in both formal and informal educative processes. They are the means by which a child expresses the desire to understand the world outside, and they subsequently become the means by which a teacher assesses whether or not a child has satisfactorily assimilated something. The teacher can also use questions to direct and control the course of students' studies. The ability and desire to question might be considered in itself one of the aims of education. This author has made an extensive study of the place of questioning in education and this book is the fullest record to date of that study. Its scope is comprehensive. It considers questions from the point of view of the one questioning and the one being questioned, and considers pupil and teacher in both of these roles. This work is grounded in theory, research, and practice and is informed by research done in other fields such as psychotherapy, criminal interrogation, and computer science.
Teachers ask hundreds of questions every week, some requiring single one word answers, others involving much more complex thought and understanding, and many are to do with the management of the class. Whole lessons can be built around one or two thought-provoking questions, involving the imagination, inviting children to recall vital information, understand a new concept, analyze, speculate, and reason. This workbook explains clearly the different types and patterns of questions teachers may ask and offers a wide range of useful practical exercises to enable both experienced and trainee teachers to improve their own and their colleagues questioning skills.
Realize the potential of quality questioning for student thinking and learning Quality questioning begins with the preparation of questions that engage all students in thinking and culminates in the facilitation of dialogue that takes learning deeper. Completely updated, this second edition reflects new research, addresses technological and policy changes, and includes new insights from the authors’ work with teachers. Designed for immediate classroom use, readers will find: Graphics, tools, and strategies to develop student skills and create a powerful learning culture QR codes that link to more than twenty new classroom videos Tools and strategies to support personal reflection, classroom observations, and collaborative dialogue
This publication reviews research findings related to the verbal questioning behaviors and practices of teachers. It emphasizes current research related to the impact of questioning practices on student thinking, achievement, and attitudes. This includes questioning techniques and strategies and approaches to analyzing classroom questions. A list of teaching suggestions synthesized from a variety of research studies dealing with questioning is presented: (1) plan key questions to provide lesson structure and direction; (2) phrase questions clearly and specifically; (3) adapt questions to student ability level; (4) ask questions logically and sequentially; (5) ask questions at a variety of levels; (6) follow up student responses; (7) give students time to think; (8) encourage student questions; and (9) use questions that encourage wide student participation. These techniques are discussed and analyzed as they apply to improvement of teachers' questioning practices and the impact on learning outcomes. The final section of the monograph is devoted to methods for improving teachers' questioning practices. (JD)
With a systematic approach to critical thinking, this volume begins with issues concerning words, examines techniques for evaluating explanations and arguments, and concludes by applying all the skills to reading essays and writing argumentative essays. With examples and exercises that show the scope to which critical thinking skills can and should be applied, this volume recognizes the difference in learning styles with a reader friendly approach. The volume addresses the use of language arguments, checking the evidence through observations, testimony and values and obligations, categorical syllogisms, propositional arguments, inductive arguments, fallacies and large-scale applications. For individuals interested in an exhaustive treatment of critical thinking and writing.