In the earliest part of my career, I wrote full procedural lesson plans that spelled out to the letter the questions I would ask AND the answers I considered correct. When the students didn’t provide ...

THIS week’s article is a guide on how teachers can apply in their classrooms the concepts discussed in the last two articles on questioning. As noted last week, the practicality of Bloom’s taxonomy in ...

“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are informal feedback gathering techniques to explore what students are or are not learning, how well they are applying it, and how well they respond to ...

QUESTIONING is a tool that has long been in use by teachers. A quote credited to Albert Einstein says, “If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the ...