Teachers often ask questions to stimulate students' thinking, open up dialog, draw out responses, and keep a discussion flowing. However, questioning techniques can encourage student passivity and dependency. Alternatives to questioning are described. (CJ)

The second in a series of articles concerning the pros and cons of whether it is better to use questioning as part of the teaching device or not to question during discussion focuses on the most effective nonquestioning techniques. Alternatives to questioning are given. (JN)

Finds volumes of research on questioning and none on discussion. Defines discussion and presents concepts and techniques that facilitate it in the classroom. Recommends the need for further research. (MD)

The first chapter in this booklet about teaching and the art of questioning defines educative questions which advance pedagogical purposes, classroom processes, and educational ends and facilitate student thinking and class participation. Examples throughout the publication are in the form of recorded and transcribed actual classroom discourse,…