Questions should be used in many different ways to help pupils develop
their ability to think and solve problems. Questions are expected to be a means
of learning new information and making already learned information more
meaningful. Questions are expected to help the teacher plan his work by
establishing the pupils previous knowledge or experiences on the topic under
discussion.
Questions are expected to allow the pupils to actively participate
in the lesson by answering them and asking their own. Questions are expected to
help teachers discover how successful they are in the lessons they teach
judging form the answer children or learners give. Questions in fact serve two
major objectives.
(a) They help the teacher discover how well the
pupil have learned the lesson and therefore how well he has taught.
(b) They help
develop the pupils’ ability to think and understand ideas.