The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning

In collaboration with Moulay Ismail University, the Centre Régional des Métiers de l'Education et de la Formation Meknès-Tafilalte held a workshop dedicated to Making Students Ask Pertinent Questions on Monday May 25th, 2015. The workshop was provided by our lovable friend and colleague Rachida Guelzim and attended by some fifty teacher trainees and Master students from the Department of English in Moualy Ismail university.

Rachida adapted her workshop duration to seven thought-provoking concentration-demading tasks and missions which participants enjoyed performing. Typical of her contributions in seminars and conferences, the two-hour workshop managed to combine so much work and a great deal of fun. 

 Professor Mohamed Larouz Questionning Rachida Guelzime!!! 

 Questioning plays a critical role in the way instructors structure the class environment, organize the content of the course and has deep implications in the way that students assimilate the information that is presented and discussed in class. Given that questioning can be a tremendously effective way to teach, and recognizing that teachers are willing to engage in the process of asking questions while instructing (Leven and Long’s research shows that the typical teacher asks between 300-400 questions per day), the purpose of this paper is to articulate a taxonomy of questions that will help instructors to recognize how to more effectively use questioning as a pedagogical strategy (1981).

Khadija Nour El Attar, Meknès MATE Local Branch president, questionning Professor Mohamed Larouz

Teach Talk, a newsletter for educators dedicated to promoting best practices in the classroom, suggests that successful questioners utilize several skills when crafting and asking good questions. These include: phrasing and sequencing questions effectively, responding to questions so that class time is used efficiently, keeping questions from leading to digression (unless the 7 digression is useful), and using the right tone and delivery both when asking and respondin.g to question. (1995).

Click HERE for Rachida's PPT
Click HERE for Levels of Questions in Bloom's Taxonomy

Thank you Rachida GUELZIME and Professor Mohamed LAROUZ for all the time and effort you have so magnanimously invested to make the event successfully happen.

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