Why?

Thinking is one of the Key Competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum. Effective questioning is the basis of thinking.

"The central argument then for putting the key competencies into the curriculum is that they allow us to refocus our content teaching. They don’t replace content they transform what you can do with it." (Rosemary Hipkins)

[|The nature of the Key Competencies: A background paper. Rosemary Hipkins.] This paper goes into each key competency in detail.