Chapter one. The right way to ask questions in the classroom

How to Ask the Right Questions
According to Patricia Blosser (author of How to Ask the Right Questions), there are four main categories that major types of questions fall in to:

Question Category	Definition
Managerial	Enable the teacher to keep the flow of learning moving.
Rhetorical	Used to reinforce an idea or emphasise a point.
Closed	For checking retention or to focus the thinking of the students.
Open	Allow the teacher to promote debate and discussion.

Managerial Questions
Managerial questions are used to lead students into the next exercise.
This can either by checking they are prepared (Is there any questions about the activity you are going to do?”), whether they have the necessary equipment (“Does everyone have a green pen?”) or asking them to perform an action ( “Can you get yourselves into groups please?”).
These questions can be viewed as links that hold a lesson together.
While they may not serve to teach students directly, their use allows students to benefit from the following types of questions.
Rhetorical Questions
Rhetoric questions are not used to elicit a response (although you often get an answer anyway!). They are used to either remind students what they already know (“at the beginning of the lesson we learnt that Camels have two sets of eyebrows to help keep the sand out of their eyes, yes?”), or to emphasise an important point (“We need protein in our diet to help with growth and repair, right?”).
Used regularly, students get used to the underlying message of rhetoric questions, that the teacher is repeating something because it is important, and therefore I need to remember this.