Effective Question Strategies

Effective Question Strategies

Date: Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (AT) / 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (PT)

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Workshop Description:

Spoiler alert! The most widely used and most-often-asked question by professors in their teaching is: “Any questions?” …and it’s also the least effective question we can be asking students… *cue 1986’s Ferris Bueller clip, meme, and GIF* Beyond comprehension checks as questions-about-any-questions, when you ask students questions (synchronously), are you often met with blank stares and no response? When (asynchronously) you post Discussion Board questions and prompts, are you often less-than-enthused with the less-than-robust posts and replies students leave? Well, question strategies are key to our pedagogies and practices, all on-site, on-line, synchronously, and asynchronously – and this CTEI Workshop aims to answer the question: “How can we use questions effectively to stimulate responses and facilitate learning?”

In this workshop, we will go over the importance of using questions in our teaching and the critical, creative, and affective skills involved in formulating questions that effectively tap into different levels of thinking – for us, and for our students. We will also identify various strategies for responding to students’ answers to our questions and to their questions to our questions (and our answers!) that promote and sustain supportive teaching and learning environments and that encourage and empower student participation, active learning, and curiosity-driven growth.