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Andrew Cowell; Chase Wesley Raymond; Maisa Nammari – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
This paper examines polar questions in Arapaho, from several perspectives. First, examples are given of consultants' elicited Arapaho glosses for English-language questions, along with consultant commentary and language ideologies on the proper forms. Of note is the consultants' preference for negative polar questions. Next, a series of…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Languages, Native Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Sheila Orr; Kristen Bieda – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2025
The use of questioning to elicit student thinking is one of the cornerstones of ambitious teaching; thus, supporting prospective teachers in this complex practice is a core objective of mathematics teacher education. In this paper, we examine the academic rigor of the sustained questioning sequences prospective teachers use during instruction to…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Preservice Teachers
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T. G. K. Bryce; E. J. Blown – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
This paper provides a critical and detailed study of what researchers in the fields of contemporary cognition and neuroscience have revealed about the blurred boundary between perception and cognition. We set out the arguments with a view to what researchers and teachers should now consider regarding the subtleties of their interrelationship in…
Descriptors: Perception, Cognitive Processes, Science Education, Children
David Chinofunga; Philemon Chigeza – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This paper reports on the development of complex unfamiliar mathematics questions using conventional mathematics questions. The autoethnographic research data included retrospective reflections of two educators and review of literature. Data analysis resulted in a three-phase development process: identifying conventional questions and subject…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques
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Kirsten Macaulay – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2024
This paper examines a methodology used identify question types and questioning techniques teachers use in primary and secondary classrooms during both expositional lessons (teacher explains learning material to students) and practical lessons (students learn through doing; teacher guides students' actions), and why these are used. To draw out this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Gonzalez, J. Stephanie; Slocum, Sarah K. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2022
Correct responding to questions regarding events that have occurred in the past are important for conversations and safety. Limited research has demonstrated techniques for teaching this skill to children who do not successfully tact past events. The current study demonstrates a probe-fading method for teaching children to correctly tact stimuli…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Cues, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
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Zhongyan Zhang; Martin Lamb – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Across the curriculum, the questions that teachers ask in class direct learners' attention to key subject matter, and shape what they learn. This paper examines the types of questions that Chinese school Biology teachers ask, and considers how and why they vary their questioning in the context of scientific practices. Six teachers from four…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Secondary School Teachers
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Edward C. Nolan – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Purposeful questioning is one of the most important elements to promote successful mathematics understanding (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014; Ontario Ministry of Education, 2011). Questioning helps teachers to elicit, interpret, and respond to student thinking (Stein et al., 2008) and supports students' understanding,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
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Zoe Slater; Gill Chambers – Education 3-13, 2024
This research contributes to ongoing debate surrounding primary teachers' perceptions of key benefits, challenges and effective practice associated with whole-class teaching and learning in the primary school. A review of pre-existing literature relevant to the practice and perceptions of whole-class teaching and learning informed the scope and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Barriers
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Reidar Mosvold; Natalie Thente – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2025
Research on teacher questioning often provides snapshots of questioning practices or study how interventions can lead to development of questioning, but few studies have investigated if and how teacher questioning evolves naturally over time. This study explored such natural variation by analysing the questioning practice of a Norwegian elementary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
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Figen Bozkus; Pinar Guner – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Interest in teachers' moves to classroom discourse has started to increase since how teachers respond to students' thinking influences students' learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the moves used by one sixth grade mathematics teacher at a public middle school in Turkey to support student reasoning in mathematics instruction and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction
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Ana Mirosavljevic; Branko Bognar; Marija Sablic – Open Education Studies, 2024
The aim of this case study is to present the most frequent teaching methods used by biology teachers in the Republic of Croatia, based on the observations made during biology class and the teachers' statements. The study included six distinguished primary school biology teachers, along with their seventh-grade classes. The data comprised an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Biology, Elementary School Teachers
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Jennifer J. Chen; Xiaoting Liang; Jasmine C. Lin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigated how children's social and emotional learning (SEL) might reflect their teachers' social and emotional teaching (SET) by means of social learning. To this end, the research team conducted 20 videotaped observation sessions of four teachers' SET and 71 children's SEL during whole-group instruction in four kindergarten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Kindergarten, Metacognition
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Yilmaz Soysal – Science & Education, 2024
This study explores science teachers' questions encouraging students to see and speak about natural phenomena in novel ways. In particular, the teachers' challenging questions that may be instrumental in persuading students to see and talk about everyday events differently were qualitatively examined. The participants were 22 science teachers.…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Verbal Communication
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Funda Örnek; Shaima Alaam – Science & Education, 2025
This study analyzed Bahraini primary school science textbooks and workbooks from grades 1 to 6 in terms of their coverage of the five essential features of scientific inquiry. These features include the following: feature 1, engaging learners in scientifically oriented questions; feature 2, making learners give priority to evidence in responding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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