Questions

1. After you have explored the Questioning Toolkit websites, what types of questions do you generally use when you teach students?

I'd say the top three types of questions that I use while teaching include clarification, hypothetical and essential questions. Clarification questions help me challenge my students to think further, maybe further back. By this I mean that if I ask a "Why..." question my students need to think back through the steps of what we just studies and figure out what produced a certain outcome.

Hypothetical questions enable my students to think about what might or could happen. This kind of questioning helps ignite imagination and creativity. If this happened, then what...

Essential questions are important in Like-Minded schools. This digs into the soul and who a person really is, or could be. These questions engage the mind and heart.


2. What kinds of questions would lead students to think critically and at higher levels?

Probing and elaborating questions could be used to lead students to higher thinking. Digging deeper into the facets of an issue or problem by asking probing questions spark important critical thinking on the part of the student. Elaborating questions, on the other hand, take a problem further than a simple answer. These create the ability for students' minds to be stretched and expanded toward higher thinking.

3. What kind of questions would compliment the integration of technologies in your classroom?

It would be good to use technology for planning and strategizing in classroom situations. Technology would also be useful with organizational questions. To me, technology is useful for organization, finding and putting information in order to understand better. The internet can be a huge asset in finding information and putting it all together.