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The Question is the AnswerChallenge through questioning.
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Starter – 10 Questions•Take a post it note and write down the
name of one famous person or character on it. E.g.. Bill Clinton, Mickey Mouse, Britney Spears.
•Don’t let anyone else see it. •Stick it on the forehead of the person
next to you.
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MAKE SURE THEY DO NOT SEE THE NAME
The Rules of 10 Questions•Now you have to guess who you are by
asking only 10 questions to different people.•You may ask anyone in the room.•You must only ask closed questions
(questions which are answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’) i.e. Am I a politician? Do I have hair?
•You have 3 minutes to try and work out who your well known person is.
No cheating!
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Session Aims
•To explain the importance of questioning in the classroom.
•To provide opportunity to strengthen one of your own lesson plans using higher order questioning
To explain the importance of questioning in the classroom
Why is questioning important?
• Most common form of interaction in lesson between students and teacher.
• Interest, engage and challenge students.
• Allows you to challenge students appropriately.
• Inspires discussion, debate and individual thought.
• Allows you to gauge pupil understanding and progress and to influence it.
To explain the importance of questioning in the classroom
Types of questions
These can be broken down into:
•Managerial – dealing with the running of the lesson
•Information/data – recalling information learnt
•Higher order questioning – analysis and inference
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
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• Can you tell me what?
• Given this information, what would you say about….?
• What was the main idea?• Can you describe?
Evaluation •How effective is….?
Synthesis•What solution would
you use to the problem of…?
Analysis• Explain
why…..happened?• Can you compare
this to…?
Thinking skill
Questioning stems
Activities to encourage type of thinking
What does effective questioning look like?•Students do not just describe, they use a
range of thinking skills to answer the questions.
•Questions challenge according to student ability.
•Students feel comfortable asking as well as receiving questions
•Students speculate and hypothesise when answering
•Questions prompt students to justify
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Question the Object
•In the middle of your table is an image.
•Using the questioning wheel and the question stems provided, devise some higher order questions around the your picture.
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Tips for effective questioning•Plan your questioning•Stage your higher order questions into
the lesson progression•Ask open questions•Use questions to develop collaborative
work•Be inventive•Respect answers
To explain the importance of questioning in the classroom
To explain the importance of questioning in the classroom
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
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