Questioning Makes the Difference

Professional development book offering rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high-level thinking, and enhance students' self-concept. The questioning strategies favor in-depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Examples of strategies include personification, what if/hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques, such as a constructing a mind map organizing and visually constructing relationships between ideas. Diagrams, examples of questions, and bulleted lists constitute a majority of the book's content, and the unifying metaphorical shape throughout the text is a triangle. Mathematics, social studies, and reading are specific disciplines for which the text provides concrete examples.