• Bon Jovi clip – Have a nice day• http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuOY3V22vo• Why you want to tell me how to live my life?• Who are you tell me if its black or its white?

Questioning: What’s in a question?

Mock the week videohttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4d1VWNPqVU&feature=related

• Socrates• If teaching is the act

of asking questions, it’s important that we think about them and plan appropriately

• Good learning starts with questions, not answers

Why is it important to get questioning right?

• Most common form of interaction in the classroom

• 400 questions a day• 70,000 questions in a school year• 1/3 of teaching time is spent asking questions• Most questions are answered in less than a

second

Why ask a question?

• The purpose of questioning in a lesson:– To develop interest and motivate students to become

actively involved in lessons– To evaluate students’ preparation and check on

homework or classwork completion– To develop critical thinking skills and inquiring attitudes– To review and summarize previous lessons– To nurture insights by exposing new relationships– To assess achievement of instructional goals and

objectives– To stimulate students to pursue knowledge on their own

Different types of questioning

• Closed questions:– Useful for assessing pupil knowledge

• What temperature does water freeze at?• Who wrote Great Expectations?

• Open questions:– Useful for assessing/drawing out pupil understanding

• Should the Amazon rainforest be developed?• If you changed your name, would you be a different person?

• Lead Practitioner training: each subject will have a range of different types of questions

• Video Clip 1• What are the limitations

of this approach to questioning?

• How could the questioning be improved to develop and challenge the learner’s thinking?

• Answer on your sheet

Some key ideas

• Involving all students– Only closed questions asked– No hands up rule– Be a fixed focal point during the questioning– Adjust who you are targeting – SEN and MAT

pupils• Differentiate questions according to student needs

– Give pupils time to discuss in pairs before answering

The three little pigs

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4L_t6IAfc

• Questioning• On your A3 sheet as

a group create, 3 closed and 3 open questions about the story

Bloom’s Taxonomy

A system designed to stretch and develop students cognitive processes

Bloom’s Taxonomy

• On your worksheet is a copy of the Bloom’s Taxonomy and some questions

• Match the appropriate question to the correct rung on the ladder

Applying the questions to Bloom’s Taxonomy

1, 3

5, 8

7

4

6

2

Resisting the urge

• Video clip 2 – Mixture of closed and open questions also including think time for students

• Wait-time– The amount of time you let a pupil think for before

answering a question– Give pupils time to discuss in pairs before answering– Important for open questions– Allow SEN questions longer to think

• Don’t jump in– Avoid jumping in to correct the pupil immediately– Let the pupil correct themselves or encourage others to

come up with a correct answer

Possible ideas for discussion in faculty areas

• Students asking questions:– Not only as teachers should we be concerned

about the quality of our questioning but the quality of the questions that our pupils are asking

– Stimulate students to pursue knowledge on their own• This is particularly important as we seek to encourage

our pupils to be confident independent learners