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Developing Questioning Skills
1 Section 5. Improving Specific Teaching TechniquesDeveloping Questioning SkillsKarron G. Lewis, for Teaching EffectivenessThe University of Texas at AustinThe ability to ask and answer questions is central tolearning. For more than two thousand years (since Socrates)the question has been an integral part of teaching. Onlywithin the last decade and a half, however, has extensiveresearch been directed to questions and Questioning strate-gies. The information which has been generated from thisresearch indicates that teachers largely have been asking thewrong questions. We have been focusing primarily onquestions regarding the specific information students pos-sessed rather than questions to promote use of Questioning Skills is essential to systematicinvestigation in any subject area. In such an investigation 1)one asks questions to identify the reason or reasons for theinvestigation: 2) questions are asked to direct the search forinformation and to synthesize what has been discovered; and3) the conclusions resulting from investigations are evalu-ated via questions.
Teacher's Practical Press, Inc., 1964, pp. 61-63. Wait-Time One questioning technique which is essential to the development of higher thought processes is wait-time . This is the amount of time that elapses between a teacher asking a question and calling upon a student to answer that question. The average teacher's wait-time is one second!! In ...
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