Explains what should not be done in a classroom while teaching. Provides a list of 'don'ts' for teachers. (YDS)

One way teachers can improve students' reading comprehension is to teach them to think while reading, questioning the text and carrying on an inner conversation. This involves: choosing the text for questioning; introducing the strategy to the class; modeling thinking aloud and marking the text with stick-on notes; and allowing time for guided…

Suggests activities that focus on the beginning of a new school year for grades K-6. The activities are designed to give students open-ended questions. Students may work on the activities individually, in pairs, or in small groups. Activities may be adapted to grade level and integrated with other subjects. (AIM)

Older adults (n=55) were divided into 2 groups: 1 group received preadjunct questions before viewing a blood pressure video; the second viewed the video only. A recall test immediately and seven days later revealed no significant differences, although the control group had slightly higher mean scores. Amount of cognitive resources to process…

This article discusses how commonly used police interrogation techniques may result in coerced, false confessions by individuals with mental retardation and urges human service agencies and police departments to communicate with each other. It describes a nine-step interrogation technique and the authoritative pressures to which individuals with…

Students in a large, active-learning, freshman biology class learned how to ask better questions with the aid of a new taxonomy for student questions. The taxonomy provided a tool that helped students evaluate their questions and prompted them to ask more high-level questions as the semester progressed. (SAH)

A study of 62 undergraduates assigned to four instructional treatments receiving variations on interactive questioning strategies with feedback (control, input, processing, output) found insignificant differences in achievement. Concluded that questioning strategies used in this study were not effective in enhancing the effectiveness of visualized…

Presents research that has resulted in the identification and classification of the types of questions asked by teachers during science lessons. Determines how each type of question relates to particular teaching approaches and student learning. (Author/CCM)

The author suggests that educational philosophy should benefit from addressing questions traditionally asked within discourse in the philosophy of mind, namely: the relation between the mind and world and the problems of intentionality (or aboutness), meaning, and representation. Peirce's semiotics and his category of creative abduction provide a…

Circumscribable quadrilateral is the one that contains a circle tangent to each of its side and it is assumed to be convex. The way teachers could use their own mathematical curiosity to engender the same in students, thereby showing a simple but relentless habit of questioning could lead is illustrated.

This paper examines the relationship among behaviorism, constructivism and Socratic pedagogy. Specifically, it asks if a Socratic educator can be a constructivist or a behaviorist. In the first part of the paper, each learning theory, as it relates to the Socratic project, is explained. In the last section, the question of whether or not a…

Interviewing skills are essential for managers and would-be managers. In the interview assignment described in this article, students develop such skills as they also learn communication theories, test those theories in practical applications, think critically, relate new to old information, and have fun. In this assignment, students are required…

Questioning-asking has not only long been seen as a central component of Jewish educational practice but has also been thought to be part of a broader culture of Judaism. In this article, we apply cognitive-developmental theories to advance the discussion of the use of questioning in Jewish education. Such theories allow Jewish educators to more…

In this article, the author discusses a rehearsal technique that would teach the content outlined in the National Standards for Arts Education and improve performance at the same time. A major component of this rehearsal technique needs to be increasing students' listening and analytical skills, and one way to do that is to ask questions…

The study investigated the effects of two reflection support programs on elementary school mathematics teachers' pedagogical problem solving view. Sixty-two teachers participated in a professional development program. Thirty teachers were assigned to the self-questioning (S_Q) training and thirty two teachers were assigned to the reflection…