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QUESTIONING STRATEGIES - Coggle Diagram
QUESTIONING STRATEGIES
Planning Questions
Decide on your goal or purpose for asking questions.
Select the content for questioning.
Phrase your questions so that the task is clear to students.
Write your main questions in advance (scripting)
Your questions should not contain the answers.
When planning your questions, try to anticipate possible student responses
Ask questions that require an extended response or at least a "content" answer.
Handling student responses to questions
Reinforcement
The instructor should reinforce student responses and questions in a positive way in order to encourage future participation.
Probing
The instructor needs to use a questioning strategy called probing to make students explore initial comments
Adjust/Refocus
When a student provides a response that appears out of context, the instructor can refocus to encourage the student to tie her response to the content being discussed.
Strategies for responding to student questions
Answer the question yourself.
Redirect the question to the class
Attempt to help the student answer his own question.
Ask the student to stop after class to discuss the question.
Refer the student to a resource where she can find the answer.
Defer the question until a more appropriate time if the question is not connected to the material you're covering.
Strategies to use when students don't respond
Redirect:
The instructor can ask another student to comment on his statement.
Rephrasing
The instructor can try to reword the question to make it clearer.
The instructor can provide some information to help students come up with the answer.
The instructor can break the question down into more manageable parts.
Using "wait time"
Amount of time an instructor pauses between asking a question and doing something else (calling on a student or rewording the question)