Value System and Value Teaching

Art of Questioning

Prepared by: Ms. Krista Alvarez

Values

- defined as culturally defines standards of desirability, goodness and beauty, which serve as broad guidelines for social living.

Value System

• Value System, is a set of consistent ethic values (more specifically the personal and cultural values) and measures used for the purpose of ethical and ideological integrity. A well defined value system is a moral code.

To say that a person "has a value" is to say that he has an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally and socially preferable to alternative modes of conduct or end-states of existence. Once a value is internalized it becomes, consciously or unconsciously, a standard or criterion for guiding action, for developing and maintaining attitudes toward relevant objects and situations, for justifying one's own and other's actions and attitudes, for morally judging self and others, and for comparing self with others.

Value Teaching

Values Education will be building on any factual knowledge (about values) to develop:

• communicative capacities• interpretive skills• powers of negotiation • reflective and self-reflective growth

• According to Ken Rowe (Rowe, 2004), notes that of all the teacher qualities nominated by those students who achieve best at school, that ‘this teacher cares’ about me/us or ‘I trust this teacher’ kinds of responses were first and foremost, with ‘knows her/his stuff’ and ‘makes things interesting’ bringing up an important rear.

Teachers should focus on that feature of their professional practice which has most impact, namely:

• the relationship of due care,• mutual respect, • fairness and • positive modeling established with the

student

Art of Questioning

• The art of questioning is the most potent weapon in the educational armoury of the teacher.

Techniques of Effective Questioning

• Establish an appropriate environment. • Create a climate conducive to learning. • Prepare the students for the questioning

session and discussion. • Use both pre-planned and emerging

questions.

Techniques of Effective Questioning

• Use an appropriate variety and mix of questions. • Avoid trick questions and those that require only a

YES or NO response• Phrase the questions carefully, concisely, and clearly. • Address questions to the group, versus the individual.

Techniques of Effective Questioning

• Select both volunteers and non-volunteers to answer questions.

• Adapt questions to the needs of the learners. • Use sufficient wait time. • Respond to answers given by students. • Use questions to identify learning objectives

for follow-up self-study.

Conclusion: The chief characteristic of questioning is to lead the child to discover new facts for himself, by guiding him through easy process of thinking or of reasoning.

Thank You for Listening ;D