This document provides 10 reflective questions for classroom teachers about their questioning behavior and practices. The questions address whether teachers prepare questions in advance, observe their own questioning behavior, practice inquiry over inquisition, use just-in-time questioning, ask too many questions, provide wait time for students to answer, call on the same students, create a conducive questioning atmosphere, and have a personal philosophy on effective questioning.

1. 10 Reflective Questions for the
Classroom Teacher

2. What is your Questioning Behaviour?

3. Do you prepare questions
in advance?

4. Have you observed questioning
behaviour in your classroom?

5. Do you practice Inquiry rather than
Inquisition?

6. How often would just in time questioning
occur in your classroom?

7. Do you ask too many questions?

8. Would students know what ‘wait time’ is?

9. Would most of the questions be
answered by the same students?

10. Do you create a conducive classroom
questioning atmosphere?

11. What is your personal philosophy about
effective questioning?