Effective Questioning
Seinfeld Teaches History
Why do we ask questions?
• To guide students toward understanding when we
introduce material
• To push students to do a greater share of the
thinking in the classroom
• To remediate an error
• To stretch students
• To check for undersanding
5 Types of Questions
Bloom
Higher order thinking -> higher
order questions.
Lower- Knowledge,
Comprehension, Application
Higher- Analysis, Synthesis,
Evaluation
Thick & Thin
Thin- Factual
Thick- Inferential
D.O.K.
Determined by task.
1. Recall, 2. Skill & Concept, 3.
Strategic, 4. Extended thinking
Ciardello
4 Levels of questions.
1. Memory, 2. Convergent, 3.
Divergent, 4. Evaluative
QAR
Question, Answer, Relationships
1. Right there, 2. Think & Search,
3. Author & You, 4. On my own
“Good teaching is more a
giving of right questions
than a giving of right
answers.”
Josef Albers