Efficient Questioning -- A Seven-Step Method to Build Critical Thinking Skills: A Seven-Step Method to Build Critical Thinking Skills

Author: Ivan Haneyel
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Research shows that many teachers do not know how to ask questions to enable students to think logically throughout a lesson. Instead, they view questioning as a means of student evaluation (e.g., "What do they know?") or student engagement (e.g., "What did you find interesting?"). In summary, from a traditional perspective, questioning is more often used for classroom evaluation and engagement rather than teaching. However, in any K-12 classroom, questioning can promote more critical thinking activities among students. Teachers can learn the secrets of successful collaboration with students and how to make questioning an important part of classroom teaching. Effective questioning includes all the resources of questioning strategies and the role these strategies play in the development of students' critical thinking skills.