"Art of Questioning"

                                      

        One of the methods of teaching used was questioning. Questioning is an intrapersonal communication of a teacher and the students. It is developing social and democratic skills and ideals. Question are used to serve a wide range of function; these are to stimulate pupils to think, motivate pupils, diagnose pupil difficulties, discover pupils interests, help pupils/ students organize and evaluate, aid pupils to relate pertinent experiences to the lesson, focus pupils attention on the key points of the lesson, develop new appreciations and attitudes, provide drill or practice, show relationships, encourage application of concepts and encourage pupils evaluation.

In questioning, there are charateristics of questions these are: Cognitive Memory Questions these require pupils to reproduce facts as rote memory or selective recall;Convergent Questions these require pupils to recall information that leads to correct answer; Divergent Questions these require pupil’s to generate their own data on a given topic; and last the Evaluation Questions these requires pupils to make value judgments about the quality, correctness or adequacy of information. 

                As a future teacher, we must know the characteristics of a good question, the techniques of questioning, as well as the techniques of handling pupil’s responses and questions.