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Your PLC Facilitator may soon bring up the topic of questioning strategies in classes. Research shows that if at last half of the questions we pose in class are targeted to higher level cognitive skills, student learning will increase in our classes. Thus, simple yes/no questions often don’t prove as effective as those that ask that students analyze, compare, evaluate, apply, justify, etc. We also know that by asking strategic questions orally in class, we are actually conducting informal formative assessment so that we will know whether the student is learning. In this Wiki, talk about some questions you’ve asked recently to see how kids are learning and to stimulate their thinking. What happens in your class?