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Effective Questioning Techniques for Engaging Learning Sessions

Enhance your teaching skills with proven questioning techniques covering cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Learn to create engaging questions and maintain a positive classroom environment.

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Effective Questioning Techniques for Engaging Learning Sessions

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  1. Questioning Effective Techniques

  2. Question Types • Cognitive domain (Bloom’s taxonomy) • knowledge • comprehension • application • analysis • synthesis • evaluation • Affective domain • valuing • responding • receiving • Psychomotor domain

  3. Additional Question Types • Content-directed questions (intended to obtain information about subject matter) • Student-directed questions (intended to obtain personal responses from students) • Rhetorical Questions (self-expression to obtain an effect, or a means of giving directions) • Ambiguous questions (intended to obtain information, but the nature of the question is not clear) • See handout: Rhodes’ Typology of Questions • TIPERS - Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research

  4. Questioning Techniques 1 • Prepare your students for extensive questioning • Use both pre-planned and emerging questions • Use a wide variety of question types • Avoid the use of rhetorical questions • State questions with precision

  5. Questioning Techniques 2 • Pose whole-group questions unless seeking clarification • Use appropriate wait time • Select both volunteers and non-volunteers to answer questions • Respond to answers provided by students

  6. Questioning Techniques 3 • Maintain a positive class atmosphere • Throw back student questions • Interrelate previous comments • Restate discussion goal periodically • Take your time • Be equitable in the way you select students to respond.

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