These questions are simply asking a question in response to the question just asked. Basically, these questions are meant to help guide students to the answer by prodding them to perhaps think about why the question was asked and to try to understand their instructor’s thinking.

How do you deflect a question politely?

17 Amazing Tricks for Dodging Unwanted Questions

1. Enlist the help of a friend.
2. Restate—and reframe—the question.
3. Deflect with a joke.
4. Offer advice instead of an answer.
5. Deflect the question back to the asker with a compliment.
6. Turn the tables.
7. Address a related, but safer, personal topic.

How do you ask a question without asking?

You can just ask anonymously and/or address the question as if it’s a friend’s problem for example! In real life, eye to eye, well that’s tough! If you’re to shy or fearful of screwing up, try to talk to that person via email, through social media or even the phone.

How do you ask for something indirectly?

Follow These 9 Steps to Ask for What You Want (and Actually Get…

1. Act as if you expect to get it.
2. Ask someone who can give it to you.
3. Get the other person’s full attention.
4. Be clear and specific.
5. Ask from the heart.
6. Ask with humor and creativity.
7. Give something to get something.
8. Ask repeatedly.

What are some questioning techniques?

Effective Questioning Techniques

• Prepare your students for extensive questioning.
• Use both pre-planned and emerging questions.
• Use a wide variety of questions.
• Avoid the use of rhetorical questions.
• State questions with precision.
• Pose whole-group questions unless seeking clarification.
• Use appropriate wait time.