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Asking Better Questions

Asking Better Questions. Why do we ask questions?. Review Assess Stimulate Engage Motivate Involve. Why develop our questioning?. Promote deeper thinking in the classroom Pupils are more confident at answering if they feel safe – safe to be wrong

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Asking Better Questions

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  1. Asking Better Questions

  2. Why do we ask questions? Review Assess Stimulate Engage Motivate Involve

  3. Why develop our questioning? • Promote deeper thinking in the classroom • Pupils are more confident at answering if they feel safe – safe to be wrong • Develop students who ask their own questions

  4. How do we ask better questions? • What do you want to achieve? • Are your key questions planned? • Plan a BIG question or statement for your lesson and allow the answers to lead a class discussion around this … see where the answers take you. Build on pupil responses • What is happiness? • What is a friend? • What is a good story?

  5. Levels of questioning • Going beyond low level cognitive responses / fact, recall, knowledge. • Comprehension • Application – predict, choose, • Analysis – What, state • Synthesis – compose, create • Evaluation – Judge, criticise

  6. Different types • Ask questions in a different way to suit learners needs – Do you ‘see’ what I mean? • Questions that start as a statement. “Drinking tea is not good for you.”

  7. How can they ask better questions? • How do your students feel in your classroom? • Do they comment on each others answers? • Do they question each other? • Do they have time to answer and generate questions?

  8. What do you know about yourself? • Take a few minutes to reflect and answer these questions. • Types of question? • When do you ask? • Where do you stand? • Who do you ask?

  9. Things you can do in your own classroom • Where do you sit/stand when you are asking questions? • Who answers your questions? • Boys/girls/ability • How do you choose responses? • Hands up/shouting out/natural discussion • Ask your team mates to observe your questioning and count open/closed questions.

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