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On asking more effective questions.... Low-order and high-order, and convergent and divergent descriptions were clear and easy to understand. It is interesting to me that I have never thought about these education principles. I just do what I do, based on what I was taught and observed and what has seemed to work in the past. Here, the article has teased apart distinctions of questioning during teaching. The techniques for successful questioning were interesting. Wait time struck a familiar chord. This is definitely a familiar area. I have grown to like waiting, so it works for me. I have watched students "tutoring" each other, and those comfortable with wait time seemed to be very effective. The 8 techniques also included #4 Balance and #8 Student questions. These are areas that might really benefit me. Balance looks at including a variety of question levels, and student questions requires students to generate questions of their own. I can't think of examples where I have required students to generate questions. Interesting. I read through the script from the video, but am unsure what to say about it. The teacher (T) student (S) interchanges were interesting. I guess what I notice most is that our challenge as a teacher is not to provide the answer, but to let students discover it for themselves. Some of the questions were divergent, some convergent.... Other than, restating or reinforcement, the T didn't provide answers. Her/his role was to ask questions.... what did you observe, what else, what did it mean, what else.... I am reminded in reading this that teaching is about the student and learning, not the teacher and knowing. This is a very significant difference.