Bloom’s

Questioning
Techniques
By:
Xiaorong Sheng (Tammy)
Pohnnipa Gressley (Nina)
What is it?
 This strategy explains different
levels of thinking and helps
educators design appropriate
questions to promote critical
thinking in students
 Created by an
American educational
psychologist Benjamin Samuel
Bloom.
 Bloom's Questioning Techniques Usages

  Use in the classrooms to improve all thinking levels

  Promote detail-oriented thinking, increase comprehension and improve problem solving skills

 Each area of Bloom's Toxonomy helps to create effective questions and assignments

  Educators can provide suitable questions for various learning levels

 How To Teach In a Classroom Setting?
 Providing appropriate questions for various learning levels.
 Asking open-ended questions during learning process.
  Encouraging group working to interpret ideas and perspectives.
  Asking questions to check for understanding.
  Making connections about different ideas.
  Modeling good questions and providing sentence starters.
  Brainstorming ideas about selected topics.
  Peer assessment and self-assessment. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
 Sentence Starter Examples For Each Level

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

How would How would Why does ____ How would you How would
you you work? Please How would
share one example feel if you were you
define____? illustrate___? you decide___?
from your project. ___? develop___?

What can you What data

When did predict What is likely Why do you What could
___ happen? would you use
from____? to occur next? think ___? you build___?
to rank___?

Name the Translate one How would you Revise this

counties that article apply what you How would you paragraph in Design a future
___. from____? learned to extend explain _____? your own home.
your thinking…? words.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaMaps1BNd0
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