Value system and teaching and the art of questioning

1. Value System and Value Teaching
Art of Questioning
Prepared by: Ms. Krista Alvarez

2. Values
- defined as culturally defines standards of
desirability, goodness and beauty, which serve
as broad guidelines for social living.

3. Value System
• Value System, is a set of consistent ethic
values (more specifically the personal and
cultural values) and measures used for the
purpose of ethical and ideological integrity. A
well defined value system is a moral code.

4. To say that a person "has a value" is to say that he
has an enduring belief that a specific mode of
conduct or end-state of existence is personally
and socially preferable to alternative modes of
conduct or end-states of existence. Once a value
is internalized it becomes, consciously or
unconsciously, a standard or criterion for guiding
action, for developing and maintaining attitudes
toward relevant objects and situations, for
justifying one's own and other's actions and
attitudes, for morally judging self and others, and
for comparing self with others.

5. Value Teaching
Values Education will be building on any factual
knowledge (about values) to develop:
• communicative capacities
• interpretive skills
• powers of negotiation
• reflective and self-reflective growth

6. • According to Ken Rowe (Rowe, 2004), notes
that of all the teacher qualities nominated by
those students who achieve best at school,
that ‘this teacher cares’ about me/us or ‘I trust
this teacher’ kinds of responses were first and
foremost, with ‘knows her/his stuff’ and
‘makes things interesting’ bringing up an
important rear.

7. Teachers should focus on that feature of their
professional practice which has most impact,
namely:
• the relationship of due care,
• mutual respect,
• fairness and
• positive modeling established with the
student

8. Art of Questioning
• The art of questioning is the most potent
weapon in the educational armoury of the
teacher.

9. Techniques of Effective Questioning
• Establish an appropriate environment.
• Create a climate conducive to learning.
• Prepare the students for the questioning
session and discussion.
• Use both pre-planned and emerging
questions.

10. Techniques of Effective Questioning
• Use an appropriate variety and mix of questions.
• Avoid trick questions and those that require only a
YES or NO response
• Phrase the questions carefully, concisely, and clearly.
• Address questions to the group, versus the individual.

11. Techniques of Effective Questioning
• Select both volunteers and non-volunteers to
answer questions.
• Adapt questions to the needs of the learners.
• Use sufficient wait time.
• Respond to answers given by students.
• Use questions to identify learning objectives
for follow-up self-study.

12. Conclusion: The chief characteristic of
questioning is to lead the child to discover
new facts for himself, by guiding him through
easy process of thinking or of reasoning.