Questioning skills helps in having successful relationship between the teachers and students and it will help to gain more information in the teaching learning process.

1. MICROTEACHING ON
QUESTIONING SKILL
BY
KSHETRIMAYUM SAJINA DEVI
ASST.PROFESSOR RKSDCE

2. Meaning of questioning skills
• A questions is any sentence which has an interrogative form.
Questioning is the fundamental to successful communication.
• To have successful interaction between teacher and students
• It is the key to gain more information in the teaching learning process.

3. Purpose of questioning
• Participation of students
• Encourage students to think critically and creatively
• Develop interest and curiosity
• To know student understanding about content
• To maintain concentration of students.

4. Types of questions
• Factual questions ( based on real history or real facts)
• Closed – ended questions ( yes/ no)
• Open –ended questions ( students give own view of answer)
• Lower order questions ( easy one without effort use of cognitive and
application)
• Higher order questions ( critical type of questions, use of cognitive
and application, synthesis)
• Probing questions ( asked easy relevant questions with hints)

5. Desirable behaviour of a teacher
• To ask questions effectively the teacher should make use of the “APPLE”
mnemonics given by Prof. Marter
• A- stands for ask questions i.e teacher should prepare questions in
advance.
• P -Pause give learner some few seconds about 3/5 seconds to think about
the questions to give answer.
• P- Pick the learner by calling his/her name to answer the questions. Surety
of 100% participation of the students.
• L-Listen to the answer given by the students, have eye contact, give
reinforcement.
• E- Expound. Generate dialogue based on the learners response. If the
learner response are incorrect, redirect back to the others learner.

6. Undesirable behaviour of a teacher
• Yes or no type questions . ( eg. Is this pencil?)
• Eliptical questions ( eg. Your father name is…)
• Echo questions ( eg. Teacher explain about Gandhiji, and immediately
asks. Who is Gandhiji?)
• Double barrel questions ( questions having more than one thought)
• Ambiguous questions ( confusing or which does not have answer)

7. Components of probing questioning skill
• 1. prompting technique
• 2. seeking further information technique
• 3. redirection technique
• 4. refocussing technique
• 5.Increasing critical awareness technique

8. Micro-lesson plan on questioning skill
Subject: Science Teacher: Ksh. Sajina. Devi
Topic: Sources of water Time:
Date: 4/06/22
Class viii

9. Sl.no Teachers Activity Students Activity Components of
microteaching skill
1. What are the sources of water? Well, river’s and sea.
2. Name some other sources of water Rain and melting of snow Seeking further
information
3. How do we get rain? No response Increasing critical
awareness
4. Where did you get the rain from? From clouds Prompting
5. How the clouds are formed? No response Increasing critical
awareness
6. When you put the wet clothes to dry. What
does it happen to water?
It evaporates Prompting
7. Can you give more examples of water
evaporation?
Evaporation takes place
on the river and sea.
Redirecting
8. Where does the water go after the
evaporation?
The water goes up in the
sky as a vapours.

10. Sl.no Teachers activity Students activity Components of
microteaching skill
9. Why do the water vapours goes up in the sky? Because they light Increasing critical
awareness
10. When we go high up in the mountain, what do
we feel?
We feel cool and cool
11. How the clouds are formed? The clouds are formed by
the water vapours.
Increasing critical
awareness
12. What happens to water vapour when they are
cooled up high in the sky?
The vapours turn into
water and fall down into
earth in the form of rain.
Increasing critical
awareness
13. Where does the water go after the rainfall? It goes into the river and
sea.
14. Can you compare the process of rain to some
instances of your daily life?
When we heat water in the
pot it turns into vapours. If
we put lid on the pot and
stop heating, after
sometimes the drops of
water appear on inside of
the lid and fall back into
the pot again.
Refocussing

11. Sl.no Teachers activity Students activity Components of
microteaching
15. So, what are the sources of water? Well, river, rain and
melting of snow

12. Observation schedule:
• Name of teacher: Date:
• Name of supervisor: Class:
• Subject : Time:
• Topic: Teach/reteach
• Instruction: Grade the performance and indicate it by encircling the
letter.

13. • Legend:
• “A” means 95-100% correct use of components.
• “B” means 85-94% correct use of components.
• “C” means 75-84% correct use of components.
• “D” means 65-74% correct use of components.
• “F” means below 65% correct use of components.

14. Sl.no Components Grading Remarks
1. Prompting A,B.C,D,F
2. Seeking further information A,B,C,D,F
3. Redirection A,B,C,D,F
4. Refocussing A,B,C,D,F
5. Increasing critical awareness A,B,C,D,F