The document outlines effective questioning techniques for educators to enhance student participation and learning. Techniques include varying question types, allowing wait time, calling on non-volunteers, and using probing questions to clarify responses. The goal is to promote higher-order thinking and ensure a broad engagement among students.

1. QUESTIONING
TECHNIQUES

2. Effective questioning techniques:
1. Varying type of questions.
2. Asking non-directed question- pose the question first,
then call on a student to answer. Direct the question to
all.
3. Calling on non-volunteers.
4. Rephrasing- if you sense that the question is not
understood, simplify it or ask it in another way.
5. Sequencing logically- it is asking related questions from
simple to complex one after another.

3. 6. Requiring abstract thinking- this means going beyond
simple recall questions.
7. Asking open-minded question- this means asking divergent
questions to develop higher order thinking skills.
8. Allowing for sufficient wait time- a.)level of difficulty, b.)the
type of response required, c.)background knowledge of
respondent, d.)the intellectual ability of the respondent.

4. Providing sufficient wait time can achieve the following:
a. Motivate slow thinking students to respond
b. Improves the quality of the response made
c. Decreases the amount of guessing or wrong response
d. Increases the number of correct responses
e. Leads the teacher to vary his question
f. Provides time for the teacher to evaluate the answers
given
g. Encourages the students to ask their own question; give
them ample time to think about the answer.

5. 9. Involving as many as possible- distribute your questions
to as many students. Widen participation.
10. Directing (Ask the question then call a student‘s
name)- Avoid fixed predictable order when calling student’s
names.
-Call on non-volunteers who manifest signs that they know
the answers.
-Do not embarrass students because of their inability to
answer the question.

6. 11. Redirecting (Ask the question, call a student to
answer, and call again another student to correct,
elaborate, or extend previous answers.)- Use redirecting
questions for high achieving students.
12. Probing ( Ask the question again if the student fails to
answer, rephrase or simplify but stay on with the same
student.)-Use probing for low achieving students.
-Staying with the same students, ask follow up questions to
clarify, rephrase the questions or ask related questions and
restate the student’s idea.