Thoughtful Questions: Effective ways to phrase questions that promote engagement and trust. What does it mean to think? Some people would like to be able to think better or, more generally, want the thinking of others to improve. But research shows that everyone is capable of thinking. The problem is getting teachers to prevent this from happening. The right type of questions opens the door to student participation. Good questions focus the learner's attention on applying their current understanding to the content or problem. Good questions are discoverable, that is, they have follow-up paths that a teacher can follow to lead a student to find an adequate answer using available resources (Socratic). Each success on one of these problems is a lesson for the learner that he knows how to think. (And each failure, a lesson to the contrary.) Note that none of these tutorial questions require recall of facts or information (tutorial questions). • Discoverable Tutorial Questions: These eleven question wordings meet the criteria of being both perception-based and discoverable. . The answers to these questions are based on shared experience, so that all learners, who may not respond acceptably at first, can be brought back to the available evidence to find adequate answers.