Learning for Life

A Route to Learning

  • DESIRE
  • QUESTIONS
  • DISCOVERY
  • REFLECTION
  • SHARING
  • MORE QUESTIONS

Effective Questioning

Drives

  • Learning (AFL/Feedback)

Requires

  • Active Participation
  • Structures and Scaffolds

Fosters

  • Communication Skills
  • Thinking Skills

Types of Questions

Factual Questions

  •  One correct answer
  • Answer not always simple

Interpretive Questions

  • More than one answer
  • Supported by evidence

Evaluative Questions

  • Depend upon prior knowledge and experience
  • Generally no right answer

Probing Questions

  • Extension – Elaboration
  • Clarification
  • Justification
  • Prompting
  • Redirection Asks for an opinion, belief or point of view