On the Art of Questioning Workshop

Education is the kindling of flame and not the filling of a vessel'-Socrates

Aptly described by Socrates and reiterated by Ms Manju Sehgal in a workshop for facilitators of The Indian School and The Indian School-Second Shift on 27 June 2019 left a mark on their pedagogical skills.

The workshop began with an interactive self-reflection activity and moved on to the reciprocal relationship between outcome, instruction and assessment. Ms Sehgal stated that curriculum designing was very crucial for organising the features of a curriculum- what is intended, transacted and eventually learned. She encouraged the use of Bloom's Taxonomy in planning the questions at various levels and discussed the importance of serving a range of items on a platter.

She stressed upon the use of behavioural verbs as a critical element to writing a good learning outcome.

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Another critical aspect of the workshop was the four domains of learning which every facilitator should keep in mind-the cognitive, affective, psychomotor and technology in the learning process. She also shared academic and deductive inquiry questioning skills.

Last but not the least the workshop ended with an inspiring quote- The only impossible journey is the one you never begin, which left the facilitators to seek to fly out in the skies with a new set of wings!