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  Questioning Strategies - Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning

  Questions should play an important role in every classroom--both student questions and teacher questions. Teachers can create an active learning environment by encouraging students to ask and answer questions.
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  Questioning Strategies Supporting Differentiated Instruction

  Questioning techniques can be used to differentiate instruction in the moment. When the teacher is very familiar with each student's background, learning style, interests, and readiness level, questions can be adapted to fit individual needs for academic development.
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  Questioning: What We Know

  A teacher's questions impact student achievement, retention and participation. They fulfill numerous instructional purposes including: assessing understanding, reviewing and summarizing, developing critical and creative thinking skills and inspiring interest and motivation. Research has shown that an absence of questioning during teaching results in lower achievement levels than instruction that features questioning (Cotton, 1989).
  
  
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  A Brief Guide to Bloom's Taxonomy

  Bloom's Taxonomy A brief guide to Bloom's Taxonomy, the historic model for classifying forms and levels of learning, provides visual representations and more recent versions as well as presents models for other domains of learning.
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  Classroom Questioning Research.pdf

  A question is any sentence which has an interrogative form or function. In classroom settings, teacher questions are defined as instructional cues or stimuli that convey to students the content elements to be learned and directions for what they are to do and how they are to do it.
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  Questioning Strategies - Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning

  Questions should play an important role in every classroom--both student questions and teacher questions. Teachers can create an active learning environment by encouraging students to ask and answer questions.
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  Questioning Strategies-University of Texas, Dana Center

  Questioning Strategies-University of Texas, Dana Center The art of teaching is based on effective questioning strategies. Asking good questions is an informative process that needs development, refinement, and practice. Teaching through questioning is interactive and engages students by providing them with opportunities to share their thinking. The classroom should be an community of collaborative learners whose voices and ideas are valued.
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  Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies

  Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers Questioning techniques are a heavily used, and thus widely researched, teaching strategy. Research indicates that asking questions is second only to lecturing. Teachers typically spend anywhere from 35 to 50 percent of their instructional time asking questions. But are these questions effective in raising student achievement? How can teachers ask better questions of their students? How can current educational research inform practice?