The document provides guidance on creating an effective questioning environment in the classroom. It suggests allowing time for students to think before answering questions, creating an accepting atmosphere by listening to students and not putting them down, and answering questions directly or redirecting them to promote discussion. The document also discusses techniques for forming questions that probe assumptions and relate questions to prior topics to help students answer their own questions.

1. How can a Question “ Think Time ” can be
Facilitated?
o Wait, pauses and silence are not inappropriate class
behaviors.
o Wait. Give the student time to think

2. How can an Accepting Atmosphere be
Created Through Questioning
Techniques
Ask for questions
Answer questions
Answers students’ questions adequately
Listen to the question, or to any student comment
Do not put down students

3. How to Answers Students Questions
Repeat the question, Paraphrasing it
Redirect the question
Ask probing questions
Promote a discussion among the students

4. Various Aspects of Students
Questioning Behaviours that are not
necessarily directed towards the
helping students answer their own
questions.
Direct answers the questions
Postpone answering the questions
Discourage inappropriate questions
Admit when you don’t know an answers

5. Socratic Questioning Techniques
Concepts on Forming the Questions
why are you saying that?
what exactly does this mean?
how does this relates to what we have been
talking about?
what do we already know about this?

6. Probing Assuptions/Questions
what else could we assume?
 you seem to be assuming?
how did you choose that assumption?
please explain why/how…?
how can you verify or disapprove that assumption?

7. Probing Assuptions/Questions
what else could we assume?
 you seem to be assuming?
how did you choose that assumption?
please explain why/how…?
how can you verify or disapprove that assumption?