1-Activity 9: What questions do I ask and why?

Asking good questions involves more than merely asking students to recall information from specific content. We must develop questions to suit our lesson objectives. These questions may be narrow or convergent (factual recall of information) or broad or divergent (stimulate thinking). My colleagues have provided some very good questions that they asked and the reasons were quite varied. As teachers we must practice and modify questioning behaviours in order to improve student learning and the social- emotional climate of the classroom. The different taxonomies posited by Bloom should also be taken into consideration when questioning students.