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Critical Questioning Scheme
This document outlines a framework called the Pioneer Questioning Phases for structuring classroom questioning. It describes three phases - basic clarification, intermediate processing, and advanced application/internalization. The basic phase focuses on defining, describing and organizing content. The intermediate phase develops cognitive skills like comparing, evaluating and seeking relationships. The advanced phase applies knowledge to new situations and transforms perspectives. Effective questioning clarifies misunderstandings, assesses learning, and develops complex thinking. Questions should target all levels but focus on basic clarification. This framework helps improve instructional awareness and troubleshoot learning gaps.
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- 1. PIONEER QUESTIONING PHASES PJCProfessional Development Committee 2013
- 2. Generate any eightfavourite questions that you usually asked during lessons.
- 3. Why questioning? Check students'learning. The primary tool at stimulating and directing thinking. Creating awareness, understanding and developing complex learning processes. Shaping perspectives and values. Doing well for examination!
- 4. How can questioningbe a practical classroom tool? Clarifying misconceptions. Teaching students the processes required for tackling A Level question-types. Scaffolding and formative developmental tool.
- 5. Phases of questioning Phase1 (Basic - Clarification) Phase 2 (Intermediate - Processing) Phase 3 (Advanced - Application / Internalisation)
- 6. Basic - clarification Thefoundation for higher order questioning. Most underrated stage of questioning. Should encompass at least 60% of the questions asked. Good way to warm the class up.
- 7. Basic - clarification Definingconcepts Describing facts Organising content Chronological / sequential arrangement Dispelling misconception Generating facts as evidences
- 8. Examples of clarification questioning... Whatis the definition of...? When...where...who...? How do you classify...? Give evidence for... Describe your observation...
- 9. Intermediate - processing Cognitivedevelopment begins. Management and assessment of knowledge. Involving skills of varying styles and intensities. Most challenging questioning phase.
- 10. Intermediate - processing Compareand contrast Change and continuity Seeking causal relationship Assessment and evaluation Questioning assumption Prioritisation of importance
- 11. Examples of processing questioning... Howimportant is...? Do you agree that...? What is the rationale behind...? Why is this...? Differentiate between... How valid is the assumption...?
- 12. Advanced - application/ internalisation Mastery becomes apparent. Values and perspectives are transformed. Creativity and innovation. Intelligence translated into actions / products.
- 13. Advanced - application/ internalisation Objective facts and the highly analytical examination of which have become useful personalised living principles. The ability to apply familiar thinking processes in unfamiliar circumstances is developed and assessed.
- 14. Examples of questioningfor application and internalisation... • How do you feel about...? • What is the possibility of...? • What can you deduce from...? • What if...? • What can be suggested to improve...? • How useful is...?
- 15. Why Pioneer Questioning Phases? Simpleand easy to refer to. Inculcate instructional awareness. Promote reflective learning through visible thinking. Locate inadequacies for troubleshooting.
- 16. Why Pioneer Questioning Phases? Itis an amalgamation of different questioning systems and theories of critical thinking. Handy for beginning teachers; broad enough for even the expert educators.
- 17. Pioneer Questioning PhasesPioneerQuestioning Phases Bloom's TaxonomyBloom's Taxonomy Clarification Remember Understand Processing Analyse Evaluate Application / Internationalisation Create
- 18. What are yourquestioning phases? Categorise the questions that you have generated at the beginning of this workshop under each of the aforesaid questioning phases. Which questioning phase do most of your questions fall under? Which is the least hit questioning phase?
- 19. Important points tonote... Although questioning is primary, it should not be the only tool to elicit thinking. Questioning can be delivered through thinking routines. Phase 1 questions should be asked more often. Phase 2 asked moderately. Phase 3 few and focused; it is not necessary to hit Phase 3 for every lesson.
- 20. Important points tonote... Questioning does not work miracles; the teacher has to model thinking processes for the students. Questioning phases need not be progressive. Questioning intensity vary with the abilities and needs of the class. Wait time is important.
- 21. Important points tonote... Questioning must be conducted with purpose. Use Never Work Harder Than Your Students / The Skillful Teacher as your guiding principles in questioning. Students ought to reply in full sentence / sentences, as they would in written assessments.
- 22. Important points tonote... Questioning sequencing could also be predesigned to condition students to a fixed order of thinking processes. Be prepared to operate in teaching for understanding rather than coverage mode, as questioning would reveal numerous learning gaps that require immediate remediation.
- 23. IP demonstration 1 ChinaStudies in English
- 24. China Studies inEnglish What questions would you ask in response to the following narrative from a student?
- 25. China Studies inEnglish "I think that the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party has been beneficial for China. Without the Party, various aspects of modernisation would not have taken place. China will continue to be a backward country in mindset and behaviour. No one will take China seriously."
- 26. More ideas... The phasesof questioning need not be in order. Consider this question, "do you agree that the market reforms of China is more bold than cautious?". Or "suggest how the government can overcome economic challenges and prioritise your solutions."
- 27. Do you agreethat the market reforms of China is more bold than cautious? How would you sequence the following questioning steps to help students address the above question? Can you identify which of the questioning phases does each of the leading questions fall under?
- 28. Arrange and identifythe leading questions... How to classify these factual evidences to support either bold or cautious reforms? How are the major steps taken in the reform?Can they be considered bold or cautious? Compare and contrast between the two sets of evidences, what criteria can you deduce to to address the question?
- 29. Arrange and identifythe leading questions... What do boldness and cautiousness in economic policies mean? Relate them to the context of China today. What are the factual evidences that you can give to support either bold or cautious reform? How to structure an argumentative narrative that could most persuasively defend your stand?
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- 32. Learning Journey toChina What questions would you ask in response to the following narrative from a student?
- 33. Learning Journey toChina “The lesson I observed in the classroom is really boring. The teacher read from the book and yet the students continued to pay attention. I also realised that the students responded actively to questions asked. My China friends told us about their long study hours into the night. I am glad lessons back in the college are more interesting and less demanding."
- 34. Thank you foryour attention! PJC Professional Development Committee 2013