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Classroom Teaching Skills, Seventh Edition
James M. Cooper, University of Virginia
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Chapter 5: Questioning Skills

Effective Questioning Techniques
http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/did/booklets/question/question.html
This on-line booklet is a helpful reference for instructors who wish to improve their questioning skills or review and assess their current questioning techniques. Strategies are offered to help teachers ask good questions and create environments in which students are encouraged to ask questions.

How Better Questioning Leads to Improved Learning: QUILT
http://www.ael.org/rel/quilt/questng.htm
QUILT—Questioning and Understanding to Improve Learning and Thinking—helps make the classroom learning environment more active, student-centered, constructivist, inquiry-based, and metacognitive. Students may also link to an annotated bibliography.

Teaching Tips for TAs: Effective Questioning Enhances Student Learning
http://www.jd.ucsb.edu/ICTA/tips/quest.html
A helpful site for teachers of all grade levels. Teachers learn how to implement Bloom's Taxonomy, wait time, probing questions to develop critical thinking in their students.

Beginning Teachers
http://www.nea.org/bt/1-students/1-1-nres.html
The National Education Association offers new (and longtime) teachers a breadth of resources, including the article "Hints on Effective Questioning Techniques

A Questioning Toolkit
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
The Educational Technology Journal integrates philosophy and pragmatism to assist teachers in developing effective questioning techniques.

Collaboration to Advance Teaching Technology and Science
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/catts/resources/educators.html
As a gateway to online resources, this site gives a wealth of information on effective questioning techniques, reform efforts in math and science education, learning styles, personality types, motivations, cooperative learning, and assessment.

Teacher Talk: What is Your Classroom Management Profile?
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v1i2/what.html
Is your management style authoritative, laissez-faire, or indifferent? This brief quiz will help your assess your classroom approach.



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