{"id":92,"date":"2013-06-20T06:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2013-06-20T06:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:20:47","slug":"open-ended-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2013\/06\/20\/open-ended-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-ended Questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yes and\u00a0 No\u00a0 is not the\u00a0way to go.<\/em> When you ask questions of students, family members or adults, make them more interactive. It&#8217;s not\u00a0difficult to make the change so answers become discussion bits that lead to more meaningful interactions:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Did you have a great day at school?&#8217; becomes &#8216;What was the most interesting part of math class today?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Did you like the movie?&#8217; becomes &#8216;What did you think about the way the movie ended?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Of course you don&#8217;t want to overdue it. &#8216;Do you want to bring your coat?&#8217; doesn&#8217;t need to turn into a discussion. By the time you&#8217;d finish, the need for the coat may have passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes and\u00a0 No\u00a0 is not the\u00a0way to go. When you ask questions of students, family members or adults, make them more interactive. It&#8217;s not\u00a0difficult to make the change so answers become discussion bits that lead to more meaningful interactions: &#8216;Did you have a great day at school?&#8217; becomes &#8216;What was the most interesting part of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2013\/06\/20\/open-ended-questioning\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking-questioning-strategies","tag-open-ended-questioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}