The best way to find out whether your teaching is effective is to ask questions to your class.

This will assist in diagnosing areas of weakness and to apply remedial procedures.

Questions can be written (tests, homework) or oral. As written work takes time to do and assess, oral questions form the major basis to find out whether learning is taking place.

DO

• Think carefully about what questions to ask, and how to ask them.
• Ask your question, pause while the class thinks, and then select a student to answer.
• Pose another question to expand the answer, if a partial answer is given.
• Encourage questions from the class.
• Make your questions brief and clear.
• Involve as many pupils as possible.
• Praise a good answer.

DON’T

• Ask your students in a pre-arranged order, starting from the same pupil and going around the class.
• Make all the questions answerable by a “yes” or “no”.
• Ask questions to a few bright students and ignore the rest.
• Name the pupil you would like to answer before asking the question.
•  Encourage chorus answering.
• Use sarcasm for a wrong answer.
• Allow students to answer without permission.