The purpose of these sessions is to foster questioning skills, Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and critical-thinking skills.



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.