The Classroom Experience should be stimulating: give ideas more than facts and instructions ask questions and, better still, ask for questions involve learners in the learning show appreciation for the smallest effort - give encouragement

Activities

The following resources refer to activities that stimulate thinking. You should try to include a range of these activities in your learning programmes:

• 5 Why's
  Process of asking why 5 times to detect the root cause or meaning of a situation
• Analysing perspective and Questions for assessment
  What are the different perspectives or points of view on an issue?
• Classifying and Questions for assessment
  Distinguishing by rules or characteristics
• Comparing and Questions for assessment
  Looking for differences and analysing them
• Decision-making and Questions for assessment
  Leading learners towards making informed choices
• Inductive reasoning and Questions for assessment
  Drawing conclusions from data.

  The PDF file resources above originate from the Instructional Framework, a website of the educational services of Area Education Agency 7, Cedar Falls, Iowa and are used with permission.

The following resources are found in the Questioning and Thinking Skills module of the Educators Network:

• Critical Thinking
• How discussion can help thinking and learning
• Think-Ink-Pair-Share
• Agree - Disagree
• Using contrast to stimulate thinking
• Problem-solving strategies