Students must understand that to become educated is to know what questions to ask and where the answers may be found. Teaching must be achieved through educational processes that involve students as active learners. One measure of achieving this goal is to require participation in cooperative learning projects. Teachers must view themselves as coaches and facilitators rather than merely as providers and interpreters of information. As students move from the P3 to the P6 years, increasing emphasis is placed on active learning.
Different questions require different levels of thinking.
Lower-level questions are appropriate for assessing students preparation and comprehension or for reviewing and summarizing content. Higher-level questions encourage students to think critically and to solve problems. Various researchers have developed cognitive schemes for classifying questions. Define shared governance. Explain the process of mitosis.