This microteaching lesson plan focuses on developing the skill of fluency in questioning. The 6-minute lesson involves asking students a series of 11 questions about the nursery rhyme "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" to gauge their understanding and critical thinking. The questions prompt students to infer the speaker's identity, recall similar nursery rhymes, and consider what stars might ask humanity today. The teacher employs various questioning techniques like prompting responses, seeking additional information, redirecting questions to different students, refocusing questions, and developing critical thinking. At the end, the teacher assesses their use of these questioning techniques during the lesson.

1. MICROTEACHING LESSON PLAN-3
Skill of Fluency in Questioning
Subject: English Date: 13/8/2015
Topic: Nursery rhyme- Twinkle, twinkle… Number of students: 6
Class: X Duration: 6 minutes
Teacher:
Teacher Activity Pupil Activity Component of the skill
Teacher asks:
1. Who is the speaker in this nursery rhyme
‘Twinkle, twinkle…’? A child? A youth? An
elderly person?
2. Is there any line that suggests so?
3. How did you infer that or make such a
conclusion? Is it because this rhyme is called a
nursery rhyme, a rhyme for children in the
way children see things?
4. Do children have the ability to ask questions to
inanimate objects, that is, to objects that don’t
have life or talk back as humans do?
5. Can you recollect a nursery rhyme in
Malayalam where the speaker addresses or
talks to an animal? What is the speaker saying?
6. If given a chance to talk with a star, what
questions would you like to ask the star?
(Teacher asks a student to reply)
Respond to questions
asked
Give their views
Recollect nursery
rhymes
Think of a question
Gives hints to respond
Seeking further information
Increasing critical thinking
Prompting technique
Seeking further information
Refocussing technique
Prompting technique

2. 7. (Teacher repeats the question and points to another
student to answer) What would you want to know
from the star? (Having got the reply, the teacher
asks)Is your question similar or different from
your friend’s question? How?
8. How many of you would have asked the same
question?
9. Which among the two statements would you
support and why?
“The speaker is a poet”. “The speaker is a
scientist”.
10. Does the speaker have good observation skill?
Support your answer by reading out the line
from the text.
11. If stars were to speak to mankind today what
would they like to ask them? ( after a pause)
Would they want man to change his ways,
would they desire man to be more cautious in
his actions?
Pupils seek consensus
Pupil support their
standpoint
Reflect on the nursery
rhyme
Critically think of the
deeds of man and the
direction to which they
lead
Redirecting technique
Refocussing technique
Developing critical thinking
Prompting technique
Refocussing technique
Developing critical thinking

3. Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of the skill of fluency in questioning
Components of the skill Duration (6 minutes) Tally marks Remarks
1 2 3 4 5 6
Prompting technique
(Encouraging students to respond)
Seeking further information
(Getting additional evidences of student comprehension)
Redirecting technique
(Passing on the question to more than one student)
Refocussing technique
(Expressing the question in a different way than it was asked earlier)
Developing critical thinking
(Making learners reconsider facts and respond intelligently)