Plan for questions

1. Plan for questions Encourage student-talk Making Students ask peers – ‘phone a friend’, pairs set ? for others Forewarn about questions - ‘Later I’ll ask you…’ our Stage questions - challenge  (see Bloom) as lesson  Discuss question in pairs for 2 mins. pre-response questions Recap ?s at start – Q&A based on last lesson Share key questions at outset, check throughout better Ensure understand ? – reword for younger child Scaffold thinking – ‘I will ask you X, but first think about A & B, now answer X?’ ctc 241004 Snowballing – student thinks of 3 answers, twos - 5, fours - 8, group selects the best Link to learning objectives Include examples in SOW

2. Support the ‘questionee’ Use open questions Making Support students in search for own answers Play Devil’s Advocate – challenge, extend, clarify our Provide wait, think, response time ( 15 secs.) Think answers - avoid thinking of a single answer questions Nurture classroom ethos of risk taking and tentativeness Follow-up questions – Why? Explain, Tell me more… better Credit effort Use enquiry questions - stimulate further enquiry ctc 241004 Use Socratic questions – open minds, probe understanding and reason Encourage metacognition – ‘What made you think that?’