Henry Bowker Discussion Questions

Questions in the classroom are essential to the growth of students’ achievement. However, proper questioning tactics are sometimes overlooked. In the article, Bowker brings up important points about how to go about questions, how to ask appropriate and effective questions, and how students can also learn to ask instead of to just answer. In the classroom, students typically are asked questions for them to answer. Bowker argues that students should learn how to be able to ask well thought out questions. If students spend the whole class only answering, they most likely will only be able to master knowledge targets and may never be able to reach higher order thinking. Bowker gives an example of a history class. If a teacher asks basic and ineffective