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Learning Objectives
At the end of the session, the participants should be
able to:
• identify the characteristics of a good question
• formulate questions for all levels of comprehension
• discuss techniques of questioning
• realize the importance of enhancing skills in asking
questions
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Priming Activity.
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Direction: In a piece of paper, write the cognitive domain that
is describe in each boxes.
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Priming Activity. Let’s check it out!
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Activity 1
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1. What is the capital of Philippines?
2. What was the main idea of the story?
3. What happens when you multiply each of these numbers by nine?
4. Why do we call all these animals mammals?
6. How would you assemble these items to create a windmill?
5. What story did you like the best?
Directions: In a piece of paper, write the level of Blooms Taxonomy this questions belong.
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❑How do you find the activity?
❑ Which questions were easy / difficult to
classify? Why?
❑How did you classify the questions?
❑ What are your discoveries about the way
you classify questions?
Analysis.
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Levels of Questioning (Blooms Taxonomy)
LOWER ORDER THINKING SKILLS (LOTS)
APPLYING
UNDERSTANDING
REMEMBER
HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS)
CREATING
EVALUATING
ANALYZING
BLOOMS
TAXONOMY
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understan
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apply
analyze
evaluat
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create
understan
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apply
analyze
evaluat
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create
list
recite
outline
define
name
match
quote
recall
identify
label
recognize
remmebe
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Generic Knowledge/Remembering Question Stems
▪ What happened after...?
▪ How many...?
▪ Who was it that...?
▪ Can you name the...?
▪ Describe what happened at...?
▪ Who spoke to...?
▪ Can you tell why...?
Find the meaning of...?
▪ What is...?
▪ Which is true or false...?
remembe
apply
analyze
evaluat
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create
describe
explain
paraphrase
restate
give original
examples of
summarize
contrast
interpret
discuss
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Generic Comprehension Question Stems
• Can you write in your own words...?
• Can you write a brief outline...?
• What do you think could of happened next...?
• Who do you think...?
• What was the main idea...?
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Generic Comprehension Question Stems
• Who was the key character...?
• Can you distinguish between...?
• What differences exist between...?
• Can you provide an example of what you mean...?
• Can you provide a definition for...?
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understan
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analyze
evaluat
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creaste
calculat
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apply
solv
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illustrat
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demonstra
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determin
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model
perform present
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Generic Application Question Stems
• Do you know another instance where...?
• Could this have happened in...?
• Can you group by characteristics such as...?
• What factors would you change if...?
• Can you apply the method used to some experience of your own...?
What questions would you ask of...?
• From the information given, can you develop a set of instructions
about...?
• Would this information be useful if you had a ...?
remembe
understan
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apply
evaluat
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create
classif
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break
down
categoriz
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analyz
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diagra
m
illustrat
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criticiz
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simplif
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associa
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analyze
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Generic Analysis Question Stems
Which events could have happened...?
I ... happened, what might the ending have been?
How was this similar to...?
What was the underlying theme of...?
What do you see as other possible outcomes?
Why did ... changes occur?
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Generic Analysis Question Stems
Can you compare your ... with that presented in...?
Can you explain what must have happened
when...?
Can you distinguish between...?
What were some of the motives behind...?
What was the turning point in the game?
What was the problem with...?
remembe
understan
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apply
analyze
create
choose
support
convinc
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determine
defend
judge
grade
compare
contrast
argue
justifysupport
relate
select
evaluate
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Generic Evaluation Question Stems
• Is there a better solution to...
• Can you defend your position about...?
• Do you think ... is a good or a bad thing?
• How would you have handled...?
• What changes to ... would you
recommend?
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Generic Evaluation Question Stems
•Do you believe?
•Are you a ... person?
•How would you feel if...?
•How effective are...?
•What do you think about...?
rememb
understan
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apply
analyze
evaluat
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design
formulate
build
invent
create
compose
generate
derive
modify
develop
create
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Generic Creating Question Stems
• Can you design a ... to ...?
• Why not compose a song about...?
• Can you see a possible solution to...?
• If you had access to all resources how would
you deal with...?
• Why don't you devise your own way to deal
with...?
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Generic Creating Question Stems
• Why don't you devise your own way to deal
with...?
• What would happen if...?
• How many ways can you...?
• Can you create new and unusual uses for...?
• Can you write a new recipe for a tasty dish?
• can you develop a proposal which would...
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Activity 2
• Group into five (5) groups.
• construct a question for each level of
comprehension.
• The questions will be written in metacards (one
question-one metacard) which will be posted and
presented.
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Analysis
• What can you say about the questions you have framed?
• Why is it important to ask questions?
• What did you consider in coming up with these questions?
• What are your insights/realizations about asking
questions?
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WHY ASK
QUESTIONS?
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• to make connections: text to text, text to self,
and text to world
• to make predictions
• to make sure we understand what we have read
• to strengthen reasoning abilities of children as
well as help them clarify/define their initial
response to the text.
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• to become better readers by making us THINK!
• “Books not discussed lose their value.”
(Mortime Adler)
• Questions allow us to make sense of the world.
They are the most powerful tools we have for
making decisions and solving problems, for
inventing, changing and improving our lives as
well as the lives of others. (Jamie McKenzie)
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WHY DO TEACHERS ASK QUESTIONS?
✔to arouse interest, motivate, engage and
challenge the learners;
✔ to check on prior knowledge;
✔ to stimulate recall and use of existing
knowledge and experience in order to
create new understanding and meaning;
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WHY DO TEACHERS ASK QUESTIONS?
✔to focus thinking on key concepts and issues;
✔ to extend learners’ thinking from the concrete
and factual to the analytical and evaluative;
✔ to lead learners through a planned sequence
which progressively establishes key
understandings;
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WHY DO TEACHERS ASK QUESTIONS?
✔to promote reasoning, problem solving,
evaluation and the formulation of hypotheses;
✔ to promote learners’ thinking about the way
they have learned;
✔ to develop critical thinking skills and inquiring
attitudes and reinforce student understanding;
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WHY DO TEACHERS ASK QUESTIONS?
✔to provide feedback and enliven classroom
discussion;
✔ to nurture insights by exposing new
relationships;
✔ to assess achievement of instructional goals
and objectives;
✔ to stimulate students to pursue knowledge on
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WHY DO TEACHERS ASK QUESTIONS?
The purpose of asking good questions
are generally pursued in the context of
, defined as
a series of teacher questions, each
drawing out a student response and
sometimes a teacher reaction to that
response.
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HOW SHOULD
QUESTIONS
BE ASKED?
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• Simple
• Clear
• Definite
• Relevant
• Challenging and
thought-provoking
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• Adapted to the age,
abilities and interests of
the students
• Require an extended
response
• Use common vocabulary
• Properly directed
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Effective Questioning should:
• Reinforce and promote the learning objectives
• Include “staging” questions to draw pupils
towards key understanding or to increase the
level of challenge in a lesson as it proceeds.
• Involve all pupils
• Engage students in thinking for themselves
• Promote justification and reasoning
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• Create an atmosphere of trust where students’ opinions
and ideas are valued
• Show connections between previous and new learning
• Encourage students to speculate and hypothesize
• Encourage students to ask as well as to “receive”
questions
• Encourage students to listen and respond to each other
as well as to the teacher
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Questioning Techniques in the Classroom
• Encourage students to ask questions at any
time.
• Give adequate consideration to all
questions--never evade a question.
• Scatter questions over the entire class.
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• Pose questions within the
ability of the student to whom
the question is addressed.
• Ask questions to the
inattentive.
• Require students to give
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• Do not permit frequent group
responses.
• Ask open-ended questions
• Avoid asking questions that can be
answered by guessing.
• Use the key words of questioning--
how, why, when, where, what, which.
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• Have students speak loudly so that
all may hear.
• Use correct grammar and
terminology.
• Keep questions on the subject.
• Write questions in your lesson plan.
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Application
Revisit the questions you have formulated in
Activity 2 and make adjustments based on
your learnings.
• What did you notice with your work?
• What are your most significant issues?
• How does it feel to be a part of this training?
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