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1) Free thinking involves thinking without restrictions to develop ideas. The document outlines 5 steps to practice free thinking: collecting ideas in short time periods, selecting good ideas, connecting ideas, organizing ideas using a "branching egg" diagram, and developing the best idea further. 2) There are various types of questions that can be asked including definitional, inference, interpretation, reflective, and review questions. Definitional questions define new words, while inference questions appeal to common sense. Interpretation questions help understand concepts and reflective questions provoke further thinking. 3) When questioning students, teachers should follow the "6 Be's": be simple, sober, social, sensitive, specific, and single-minded. Questions

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Free Thinking

1) Free thinking involves thinking without restrictions to develop ideas. The document outlines 5 steps to practice free thinking: collecting ideas in short time periods, selecting good ideas, connecting ideas, organizing ideas using a "branching egg" diagram, and developing the best idea further. 2) There are various types of questions that can be asked including definitional, inference, interpretation, reflective, and review questions. Definitional questions define new words, while inference questions appeal to common sense. Interpretation questions help understand concepts and reflective questions provoke further thinking. 3) When questioning students, teachers should follow the "6 Be's": be simple, sober, social, sensitive, specific, and single-minded. Questions

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FREE THINKING

I think therefore I am
_rene Descartes
Free thinking is thinking without any restrictions.
Why think?
Because thinking leads to development an development starts with thinking. Thinking is necessary to
have ideas.
How to get an idea by doing free thinking?
There are 5 steps.
1. Collecting ideas.
Lets take a piece of paper and write all the thoughts that cross our mind for 10 minutes. After the times
up count the ideas and number them.
Now, as, we have done some free thinking and by that we have got some ideas.
But, we miss out on writing some thoughts we have. This happens because we cannot write as fast as we
think. While we frame a sentence the thought we are having at that second flies off. So, what do we do?
We write in shortcuts so that when we visit those shortcuts we will know the whole thought.
So, lets take another paper now and write our thoughts on it but, now we reduce the time to 5 min only.
And, also we now write in shortcuts.
After finishing lets count the number of thoughts we had and be sure they are more than those you have
got the first time.
2. Pick up the good thoughts or ideas from the list.
3. Connect them if possible.
If you are able to connect the thoughts organize them because a lesson without organization leaves the
student confused. Now lets see a method of organizing the thoughts or ideas .This technique is called the
Branching egg.
How to organize thoughts using a branching egg?
a) Put the central idea in the egg.
b) Write all the thoughts you have about that idea around the egg like in a word web.
c) If there are similar thoughts have a sub branch.

d) Organize the thoughts on the go.

Example: If you want to organize thoughts about god.

Abilities
What he does
Provider

Relation ships

creator

GOD

Friend

Like shown above we can have branches and sub branches so that we can organize the thoughts that are
need to be told in the class.
4. Take the best idea and develop it.
If the idea needs development we need to do free thinking again. So, we need to follow the steps again.

THE ART OF QUESTIONING


Why do we need to question?

To extract information
collect the information
To enquire
To ensure
To build a rapport
To learn
To clarify
To engage a person
To arouse interest
Out of wonder.

What are the various types of questions?


There are,
1. Definitional questions:
Questions that ask to define for example define mass. The new words are to be explained to the
child as he may not know the meaning of some words so these questions are to be answered.
2. Inference questions:
These are the questions that appeal to the common sense of the child. Lets have an example
Say a scientist is observing an insect with six legs. He cuts the first leg, taps on the bench and the
insect jumps. So, he notes down that. Again he cuts another leg, taps the bench, the insect jumps
and he notes that down .later after cutting the fifth leg he taps on the bench and the insect doesnt
jump. So, he notes that the insect cant hear.
This is a wrong inference where as the right one being the insect has lost its balance and cant
jump.
Like this, ask questions that appeal to the common sense of the child so that he can observe and
get to the right conclusion.
3. Interpretation questions:
Put questions that will make him understand the concept. These are the questions that will make
him understand the topic like questions that are asked in a comprehension passage.
4. Reflective questions:
These questions will make him think further. Ask questions that provoke him to think.
5. Review questions:
These questions asked at the end of the class.
Tips to follow for better questioning:
To be better at questioning, you need to follow the 6 Bes
1. Be simple: A teacher should engage the language of the child. He needs to define the terms in
simple language using words that are familiar with the child.

2. Be sober: The questions must be sensible and thoughtful. Put intelligent questions rather than
sense less questions.
3. Be social: Be friendly with the child. Always smile .That solves 50% of the problems. The
tone with which you ask the questions is also very important. The body language followed by
the teacher when the question is put is also important.
4. Be sensitive: Be sensitive to the child. Read his face whether he understand or not. Take the
answer of every child. Write his answers on the board so that his confidence boosts up.
5. Be Specific: Point to a child specifically. Some students does not involve in the class much
.Involve them. It is the duty of the teacher to make kids like that talk. Be impartial. Dont use
negative language.
6. Be single minded: Dont diverge from the lesson and start talking about another point. Be
focused on the aim that is to be taught in the class that particular day.
So, if all the 6 bes followed and questions are prepared accordingly the concept that is being
taught is sure to imprint on the childs mind.

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