Transcription of Developing Questioning Skills - University of Delaware
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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.
Thinking wait-time is the appearance of speculative thinking (e.g., "It might be the water,". .."but it could be too many plants.") and the use of arguments based on evidence. Shift to 4. If the wait-time is prolonged an average Student- of five seconds or more, students shift Student from teacher-centered show-and-tell kinds
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