Opps! I don’t know how to ask questions!

Yes I ask my students questions but apparently I do it wrong.  I try to engage the class through questioning but of course it is always the same minority that volunteers to answer my questions.  How do I engage everyone.  My questions don’t really elicit learning; they tend to be questions that have a pat answer (“what is 8 squared?”).  I actually avoid students who have requested that I not call on them (most of whom are doing well in the class).  I was at a Seattle School District seminar when I learned how woefully adequate my questioning was, on more counts than I have enumerated here.  So for now my solution is to check out the book “Quality Questioning” from the UW and see how I can improve my questioning skills.  More later.