Questioning

"Ask a man a question and he inquires for a day; teach a man to question and he inquires for life"

Parents, do you remember your school days? The best teachers were the ones who did the littlest talking and had the most action in their classrooms from students.

It is no simple task - to be able to ask the right questions: the ones that foster more questions in the minds of the child and lead to better learning. There is a need for change in perception of the child, to believe that the child is capable of constructing knowledge out of their experiences.

Constructivist Theory
According to this theory, learning cannot happen in isolation. It happens in a context. For example, if a child is told that the earth rotates, she uses previously built knowledge to base this as the truth. Since she may already know that the planet is round, it makes sense for her to understand that it may or may not be spinning. How fast does it rotate? What makes it spin and how? And the questioning continues …

Indus Mentors
Teachers merely answer questions. But an Indus Mentor is one who provokes you to ask even more questions. Indus firmly holds that, NEVER discouraging a question is what makes the difference between a good teacher and a great facilitator.