Asking more challenging questions

Resource Type:  Ideas and inspiration - Podcast

This 20 minute podcast reports on research conducted by Associate Professor Tricia Zucker who investigated the questions asked by early childhood educators when engaged in a shared book reading experience with students. Her work reveals that irrespective of student age or content being taught, 25-35 per cent of what teachers say is in fact questions and the most frequent type of questions asked are 'Wh’ questions:   ‘Who, What, When’. Tricia offers advice about how educators can pose questions that are more challenging and elicit longer responses from students.