Mini Course-14 days to wake up your questions

Day 1 Why we ask Questions

Why do we ask questions

1. To acquire knowledge
2. To eliminate confusion
3. To cause someone else to feel special/important
4. To guide a conversation in the direction we want it to go
5. To demonstrate humility to another
6. To enable a person to discover answers for themselves
7. To gain empathy through a better understanding of another’s
view
8. To influence/alter someone else’s opinion/view
9. To begin a relationship
10. To strengthen a relationship
11. To humbly show we have knowledge on a specific topic
12. To stimulate creativity and idea generation
13. To gain a person’s attention
14. To solve a problem
15. To reach agreement or to “agree to disagree” with
clarity

Day 1 15 Factors that make a question effective:

A question should…

1 – Reinforce learning
2 – Encourage the lesson to flow
3 – Be part of a conversation
4 – Involve both parties
5 – Engage creative though
6 – Stimulate Imagination
7- Engage Speculation
8 – Require justification and reasoning within the answer
9 – Stimulate higher-order thinking
10 – Harbour trust
11 – Link to previous knowledge
12 – Encourage listening and responding
13 – Seek views and opinions
14 – Engage emotions
15 – Create a sense of teamwork

 

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1. Asking rather than telling

2. Asking at the wrong time

3. Asking about the wrong thing

4. Asking when I should have stunt up

4 Traps
1. Asking rather than telling
2. Asking at the wrong time
3. Asking about the wrong thing
4. Asking when I should have stunt up

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Day 9

Common questions –
Who has priority here?
What does that sign mean?
Where are you going to wait?
When are you going to go?
Why is it important we check our mirrors?
How will you know it’s safe to go?
Experiment with these alternatives –
Who might change the rules and do something different
here?
What could be the reasons for that sign?
Where could you put the car to make our intentions
more obvious?
When could you think about going?
Why might they put mirrors on cars?

Day 10

Try some of these…
Tell me
Have you
Would you
When would you
Is there
I wonder
Show me
Describe to me
Let me know when
Give me
Are you/they
Could you/they
Was, Will, Would

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