What questions do we need to ask students?

We need to ask direct questions to obtain useful answers to help us to move forward. The following questions were taken from New Horizons for Learning at  http://www.newhorizons.org/voices/unger.htm

About a Specific Class:

Tell me about your class?
What is it all about?
What are you learning?
How are you learning that?
What does your teacher do?
How does your teacher help you to learn?
Tell me about a specific unit or project?
What did you do? (First, second, next, next?)
What did you learn?
How did you learn it?
Were you interested and engaged in it?
How so? How not?
How does your teacher know if you are learning?
How does he or she assess your work?
How does he or she give you feedback on your work, and your learning? Does that help you learn?
Do you feel this was important to learn? Why?
If you were going to make any recommendations to your teacher about helping you to learn, what would you suggest?

About Teaching:

Tell me about the variety of teaching that is going on in your school?
What kinds of teaching do you find most helpful?
Why is that helpful?
What helps you learn best?
What kinds of teaching does not work for you? Why is that?
What would you like to see changed in your school?

About the School:

Tell me about your school.
Can you describe it to me?
What is it like?
What do you like about it?
What do you not like about it?
What do you think could be different? Why?

About the Purpose of School:

What do you think is the point of school?
How is school helping you?
What are you hoping to get out of school?
How is school preparing you for the rest of your life?
What other subjects would you like to be learning?