Questioning

Think of a question you might have used in the past week in your classroom – write it on the handout sheets

Starter

A critical element in outstanding T&L

Think of a question you have used in the past week in your classroom

Share it with the group

Questioning

1. Understand that high quality questioning promotes the highest level of learning and therefore progress

2. Self-evaluate the range of questions you ask3. Self-evaluate the way you choose who

answers questions4. Begin to plan of how to use todays

strategies in daily practice

Training Outcomes

CH intro

Types of questioning (5 mins) – CH

Dylan Williams

Examples of how to use questioning to really push deep learning CH/GH

Deciding who to ask – hands up / random selection / whiteboards / Traffic lights (5 mins) – GH

Plenary and feedback

The Big Picture

Are you looking forward to half term? Do you know the Lord’s Prayer? So how much is 3 X 4 twelve, right? Why didn’t you complete your homework? We really should be getting started now,

shouldn’t we? As you envision that you had just lost everything

in Hurricane Katrina…What personal learning's or insights will you carry forward to future situations

Types of questioning……..

Exert from our Lesson Obs proforma

G2O book extract

http://www.fromgoodtooutstanding.com/2012/05/ofsted-2012-questioning-to-promote-learning

Dylan William and questioning

Are you looking forward to half term?- Verification – you already know the answer!

Do you know the Lord’s Prayer? Closed – can be answered ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘I can’

So how much is 3 X 4 twelve, right? Rhetorical – the answer is given in the question.

Why didn’t you complete your homework? Defensive – cause justification, resistance or self protection.

We really should be getting started now, shouldn’t we? Agreement – seeking agreement with your opinion or answer.

As you envision that you had just lost everything in Hurricane Katrina…What personal learning's or insights will you carry forward to future situations? Empowering prepositions –Hidden meanings below the surface.

Types of questions explained

“Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce”

The teacher poses a question, pauses to allow pupils time to think, pounces on any pupil (keeps them on their toes) and then bounces the pupil’s response onto another pupil.

Improved questioning technique

TIGGERPose Pause Pounce Bounce

CH relates this to starter exercise

Types of question

Do you ever consciously plan / audit your questions? How good are the key questions you plan for each lesson? How well do the questions you ask relate to the learning

objectives? Do the questions you ask challenge thinking? How often do you ask further questions that really probe

understanding? How many questions do you ask to which you don’t know the

answer? How often do the learners ask the questions? How often do you ask the learners to generate probing questions? How do the questions you ask promote learning?

How is your questioning?

4 ideas1. Random name generator2. Sticks (or similar)3. Numbers on the desks4. Old School

Choosing who to ask

NO HANDS UP! ?

School Policy?

Recall your question from the starter earlier…

In light of what you know now, rewrite your question.

How has it changed?

How will your questioning change?

Plenary (CH)

How do questions promote learning? Good questions stimulate thinking, and often generate more questions

to clarify understanding. Good questions generate informative responses often revealing not

only misconceptions and misunderstanding, but understanding and experience beyond that expected.

Good questions encourage learners to make links. Good questions push learners to the limit of their understanding. Good questions from pupils push teachers to the limits of their

understanding too, and challenge them to find better ways of explaining.

Good questions offer opportunities for learners to hear others’ answers to questions, it helps them to reflect on their own understanding.

Quality questions

Questioning can fail because: questioning techniques are inappropriate for the material. there may be an unconscious gender bias. there may be an unconscious bias towards most able or more

demanding students. students don’t have enough thinking time. (1 second average) learners don’t have any idea as to whether they are the only

ones to get it wrong/right. learners fear being seen by their peers to be wrong. questions are too difficult. questions are too easy.

Unproductive questions

This is NOT a mechanism that is expected to be seen…. IT is an educational ethos.

Successful AFL

Do I ask the best questions? Do I choose who answers questions in the

best way? Do I develop the skills of best ways to

question with my pupils?

Some questions for you!

How do we teach / promote students to ask the BEST questions for maximum learning?

What next?