The document discusses various questioning skills used by teachers:
1. Questioning skills are used to increase student participation, arouse their interest and curiosity in topics, and guide students to find correct answers independently.
2. Techniques include prompting students with hints to answer themselves, seeking further details when responses are incomplete, refocusing students to consider other similar situations, and redirecting the same question to multiple students.
3. Increasing critical awareness involves asking students to explain the reasoning behind their responses.
The document discusses various questioning skills used by teachers:
1. Questioning skills are used to increase student participation, arouse their interest and curiosity in topics, and guide students to find correct answers independently.
2. Techniques include prompting students with hints to answer themselves, seeking further details when responses are incomplete, refocusing students to consider other similar situations, and redirecting the same question to multiple students.
3. Increasing critical awareness involves asking students to explain the reasoning behind their responses.
The document discusses various questioning skills used by teachers:
1. Questioning skills are used to increase student participation, arouse their interest and curiosity in topics, and guide students to find correct answers independently.
2. Techniques include prompting students with hints to answer themselves, seeking further details when responses are incomplete, refocusing students to consider other similar situations, and redirecting the same question to multiple students.
3. Increasing critical awareness involves asking students to explain the reasoning behind their responses.
The document discusses various questioning skills used by teachers:
1. Questioning skills are used to increase student participation, arouse their interest and curiosity in topics, and guide students to find correct answers independently.
2. Techniques include prompting students with hints to answer themselves, seeking further details when responses are incomplete, refocusing students to consider other similar situations, and redirecting the same question to multiple students.
3. Increasing critical awareness involves asking students to explain the reasoning behind their responses.
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Skill of Probing
Questions QUESTIONING SKILLS PURPOSE OF QUESTIONING SKILLS: To increase the students’ participation in their teaching-learning interaction.
To arouse the students’ interest and their
curiosity in the topic they are learning To develop the students’ active way of thinking and learning
To guide the students in the process of finding
a good and correct answer To help the students concentrate on the topic under discussion. Such techniques that deal with the pupil responses to our questions are included in the Skill of Probing question Components
Prompting techniques Seeking further information technique Refocusing technique Redirection technique Increasing Critical Awareness technique Important Factors in Questioning Skills
Distribution of Questions Clarity and Relevance
Reinforcement Techniques Speed and Pauses
Prompting and Probing
Prompting Teacher
neither supplies answer Nor directs it to another pupil
To give hints to the pupils and helps him to answer himself
This technique is used when pupil responses
are- I do not know, or do not respond
The teacher does not discourage pupil for his
no or wrong response Seeking further information technique If the initial response of a pupil of a pupil is either incomplete or partially correct, then the teacher helps the pupil to clarify , elaborate or explain his initial response to expected level.
Ask the pupil to supply the additional information
What else you can add to your response ?
Please state in other words.
Is there any other answer also to the
problems?
Will you elaborate your answer? How can you make your answer clearer? Will you give an example to support your answer? Refocusing technique
This technique is generally
used when the pupil gives a correct response.
This technique consists of enabling the pupil to
view his response in relation to other similar situations. In what way is In what way is it similar this different to……? from….?
If y rom int it f w po ou the vie ..? of…
ex am ine s it ? e … d o o… o w et H lat re Redirection technique
Putting or directing the same question to several pupils
for response. Increasing Critical Awareness technique
This technique involves asking HOW and WHY of a
completely correct or expected response. Why do you say What are you that all men assuming here? are honest?
