The purpose of these sessions is to foster questioning skills, Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and critical-thinking skills.
 
This resource offers a set of flexible PowerPoint sessions designed to develop questioning skills, Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), and critical-thinking abilities. Each session consists of 25+ slides and follows a four-phase structure: "What Makes a Good Question?" "Generating Philosophical Questions," "Using Questions in Critical-Thinking," and "Questioning Experts." By focusing on question-generation and short discussion prompts, the sessions promote metacognition and self-regulated learning, helping students monitor, evaluate, and regulate their learning processes. These skills are also valuable in combating misinformation and fostering independent, analytical thinking.

These skills to play an important role in the broader project of enhancing metacognition and self-regulated learning in students since developing questioning skills allows for greater independence and allows students to more effectively monitor, evaluate and regulate their learning-processes. That said: critical-thinking and questioning skills are, in an age of misinformation, fake news, and mass-propaganda, valuable thinking skills that constitute ends in themselves.

 Each of the sessions contains four phases:
 
'What Makes a Good Question?'
Generating Philosophical Questions
Using Questions in Critical-Thinking
Questioning Experts
 
These PowerPoint sessions are fairly flexible and consist of many short discussion questions instead of more lengthily tasks: each one contains 25+ slides and is, therefore, suitable for more than one session. The exercises generally involve question-generation: the prompts deal with metacognitive issues, broader questions from the wider curriculum, and matters relating to self-regulated learning.
 
Download this resource today if you're looking for a teaching tool that:
Enhances metacognition by teaching students to generate and evaluate questions that support self-regulated learning.
Develops critical-thinking and HOTS, equipping students to analyse and engage with information critically.
Encourages independent learning by fostering skills in questioning and reflection.
Provides versatile, discussion-focused sessions that can be adapted for multiple lessons.
Supports broader educational goals by addressing issues of misinformation and promoting analytical thought processes.