What does the teacher ask?
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Do you know what kind of questions you ask most frequently? Research on the questions teachers ask shows that about 60 percent require only recall of facts, 20 percent require students to think, and 20 percent are procedural in nature.
The major types of questions fall into four categories:
Managerial: questions which keep the classroom operations moving;
Rhetorical: questions used to emphasize a point or to reinforce an idea or statement;
Closed: questions used to check retention or to focus thinking on a particular point; and
Open: questions used to promote discussion or student interaction.
(Source: P. E. Blosser. (1975). How to Ask the Right Questions. National Science Teachers Association)
Following is a list of question types you can use to analyze your questioning strategies and develop a variety of questions to help students think.