Understanding, crafting, and asking questions is a critical skill for all teachers, maybe even more so for social studies content, an area where educators may lack broad, in depth knowledge of the content. Having the ability to ask high level, critical thinking questions of students takes time and practice and a skill not often mastered or present in teacher candidates or new teachers. Even many seasoned teachers have difficulty asking questions that promote thinking and assist students in making connections about their learning. When teacher candidates learn about questioning through a specific model promoting deeper thinking through critical questioning, their thinking about questions and questioning changes. Consider this vignette as a teacher candidate discusses questioning in a social studies methods course while learning the basics of lesson design.