Questioning Strategies

• To promote higher level thinking in your classroom remember to work on questioning strategies.
• Unit Essential Questions should be posted in your classroom to guide student thinking and learning.
• Essential Questions don’t have an easy yes or no or textbook answer.
• Essential Questions require thought and research in order for them to be answered.
• Questioning strategies should be implemented in your daily lessons.
• Remember to allow 3-5 seconds wait time before calling on someone to answer.
• Questioning allows students to inquiry, thus learn.
• Push your students to question at the analysis, synthesis, and evaluative stages.