Handling difficult questions while teaching

Obviously, sometimes, its innate human nature to be in difficulty in the course of teaching. Some childish students' stupid questions leads such problem in a classroom. Since I have been teaching in Nepal, I have faced a lot of such silly questions raised by students and many of my friends quit their job due to stress. Thus, I am giving some strategies for proper handling of difficult questions while teaching.

First strategy to handle the difficulty is finding the relevancy of the question. If the question is not pertinent to the particular area where you are teaching, you can tell them to answer after completing the formal class somewhere outside of your class. And, if the topic is pertinent to your topic and  you do not know the answer, you tell them to answer tomorrow and give them other practice questions like this. Then, student may think you are smarter.

Second strategy is to identify the type of students who are raising you the questions. If the student is asking  you just to be smart, detect and ask him other questions to defend. Otherwise, if the question is from genuine side, give them extra practice work, thereby pondering about its solution. Then, they will ramble on their practice work.

And the last strategy is creating the environment of competition among students for difficult questions. You can create the ambient of competition if the question is very hard. You can generate a lot of solutions from students side from their heterogeneous ideas. They forget all for competition and bury themselves in the topic.

In conclusion, the main strategy to handle problematic situation is to make them even more busy on that situation.