Ok, it’s A Bit silly … But

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Captain Query 21st Century Questioning

introduction Ok, so this is a bit of gimmick, but we wanted to capture your interest. The truth is

effective formative assessment such as questioning will, on average, increase your

students grades by one grade boundary each [1]

. Best of all, it takes no extra prep

time, just a bit of practice and getting used to!

Contents

Open Response Questioning – The good, The Bad & The Ugly

Directed Questioning – One Mind at a Time

PPPB (Basketball) – All for one & one for all

Bloom Questioning - for the good of greater minds

Glossary Extracts - that’s the way to do it

Credits www.comicmaster.org.uk – Site used to create this comic

www.socrative.com – Online All-response & assessment management system

www.polleverywhere.com – Online voting / all-response system

[1] - Hattie, J., Visible Learning for Teachers, 2011, Routledge

We want your strategies!

Enter them on the ‘Questioning Strategies’ glossary on

the Learning & Teaching Resources page.

Glossary Extracts

Strategies that can improve the achievement of

your students right now!

All Response Multiple Choice Display 4-10 possible answer / responses, ask learners to hold up their fingers to demonstrate what

they believe is the answer and start asking questions.

All Response Thumbs Ask learners to demonstrate whether a statement is true of false by holding their thumbs up or down.

You can get further engagement by getting the learners to write the statements in advance.

Assertive questioning Students are asked an open question. Students work on this individually, or better in pairs, for one to

five minutes. Teacher asks students if they have an answer. If they don't, help is given. Teacher

nominates students to give their answers (not volunteers). Teacher does not give away answer until all

have contributed.

PPPB (Basketball) Pose, Pause Pounce, Bounce. You pose a question to the group, wait for a few seconds and then choose

a student to answer the question at random. Once they have answered, ask why, is that right or wrong,

and pick another student. You can even ask for more detail, explanation, evaluation.

Questioning Objectives This can get the learners really involved at the start of a lesson. Before you chare the objectives for

the lesson, tell the students what the topic is - For instance "the functions of the endocrine system"

and then ask them what questions they might want to be able to answer at the end of the lesson. Of

course they may not know the technical terminology, but they can think about the applications of the

topic to their assignments/work/vocational area.

Quick Peer Quiz All learners are provided with a sticky note or small piece of paper, they each write a question to be

posed to someone else. The question then passes to someone else in the room who writes down their

answer. Finally, the question and answer is passed to one other learner who "marks" and writes

feedback on the answer.

For more strategies, resources, video guides and to add

your own strategies please go to the Questioning Techniques

Glossary on the Resources page of the Learning & Teaching

Site

Visit The Questioning Strategies Repository on the Learning

& Teaching resource page for more tips, techniques and

Resources to help your learners achieve higher.

All Response

Group Response

Multi-Response

Peer Response

Single Response

Techniques

Do you ask the

student or the

question?

When you ask,

how many

answer?

Who learns more, the

student who gets the

answer right or wrong?

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